(23.2.2017) As Techdirt has noted, the UK‘s Investigatory Powers Act, better known as the Snooper‘s Charter, has been dubbed „the most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy.“ It may be the worst, but it‘s not an isolated case. Governments around the world are bringing in laws that grant them powers to spy on innocent citizens using „bulk collection“ of information — mass surveillance, in other words. As the Dutch site Bits of Freedom reports, the latest country to join the super-snooper club is the Netherlands, where the lower house has just passed the bill for the new Intelligence and Security Services Act: