Equipment Interference: an Unruly Horse?

The future of UK State surveillance has serious implications attached to it

Many years ago, the most precious property one could own was their private papers. At least this was the notion exhibited in one of the landmark cases in public law, that of Entick v Carrington.

In that 18th century case, the Earl of Halifax, a member of the King’s Privy Council, issued a warrant authorising the King’s messengers to enter the premises of…