TY - BOOK AU - GLOVER Phil TI - Protecting national security : : a history of British communications investigation regulation / SN - 9781032040424 (pbk.) U1 - 344.410525 GLO PY - 2023/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon PB - Routledge KW - HISTORY KW - GENERAL KW - CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION KW - GREAT BRITAIN KW - DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS KW - LAW AND LEGISLATION N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This book demonstrates that, irrespective of motive, perhaps the greatest irony of Edward Snowden's 2013 disclosures to various international media outlets is that the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 represents not a curtailment of huge, previously secret State power, but rather its probably irreversible 'transparent' entrenchment. ER -