Coalition plans to expand the powers of the security services to monitor emails and phone calls will give them "unfettered access every single communication" people send, a senior Tory MP has warned.
Former shadow home secretary David Davis dismissed the idea that the proposed law would not enable GCHQ to snoop on the content of emails and phone calls.
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