On Wednesday, French MPs voted to allow the authorities to search luggage and vehicles without prior approval from a prosecutor, and to permit police to seize data from computers and mobile phones.
Now the Turkish government is preparing new regulations that will make it easier to seize data from online companies and identify individual Internet users.
Amid continuing criminal investigations into the process for the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, the Swiss attorney general's office seized data and IT equipment from Fifa's Zurich headquarters as part of a pre-agreed handover of evidence.
Greenwald says they are either giving the government direct access or the government simply seized the data from them.
The reporter with the most direct access to these documents, Glenn Greenwald, has also now repeatedly stated that the NSA had "direct access" to these company's servers or seized this data from them.
And finally, internet service providers, those benighted souls who have been lumbered with the government's megalomaniac ambition to seize the data from all our communications, have given the home secretary's proposal a distinctly frosty reception.
In America, warrants to seize user data from Facebook often also request any stored photos in which the suspect has been tagged by friends (though the firm does not always comply).
Police forces can also recognise demonstrators without actually seeing them: some officers in America have kit capable of recording the identifying code of all the mobile phones within a given area, and officials can also beg or seize the data from mobile operators.More sought-after is technology that can help forestall protests.
Timor-Leste launched proceedings against Australia after the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (Asio) seized documents and data from the Canberra office of a legal adviser to Timor-Leste, Bernard Collaery, on 3 December, on the grounds of national security.
Timor-Leste is seeking an urgent ruling from the International Court of Justice ordering Australia to deliver to the court the documents and data seized from Collaery's premises and to destroy any copies.
