the investigatory power built and ratified by royal assent on tuesday. it is a sweeper piece of legislation that forces telecom companies to store everybody s data. your calls, texts, location data and web activity for a year. it also empowers law enforcement allowing them to legally hack into people s devices without them knowing. sounds extreme? it is. the law at the beginning of 2017 will give the government fast powers to essentially spy on its citizens by their online activities. the u.s. whistleblower edward snowden describe it as the most surveillance in the history of western democracy. it goes further than many ought talkeracies. the inventor of the worldwide web told the bbc that such a law had no place in a modern democracy adding it undermines