The missus wanted a new Android tablet for Christmas, the old one showing signs of wear and tear after almost 4 years of use. It arrived in the post today and just now she saw me setting it up with the usual apps and security measures including, she noticed, a bit of tape over the camera and mic.

"What's this?" she asked, pointing to the tape. "Well" I replied, "You don't want a live camera pointed at you while you watch Netflix in bed, do you?". She scoffed at me and called me a typical conspiracy theorist.

I asked her if she had missed the huge, scandalous news stories about NSA/GCHQ running illegal global surveillance on the public, to which she responded with that awful line "Well, I have nothing to hide".

"OK well if you have nothing to hide, why don't you post nudes of yourself on Facebook, along with your credit card numbers and medical history?" I replied. She paused to think about that one. I carried on "What if you woke up one morning to find the window cleaner filming you through a gap in the curtains, I assume you'd be fine with that, would you?"

"No, of course not" she replied.

Even with Edward Snowden's revelations of illegal mass surveillance followed by his asylum in Russia, of all places, and pictures of Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg covering his own camera and mic people don't seem to care about their own right to privacy any more and worse still, they trot out the line "I've got nothing to hide", seemingly inviting scrutiny from our overlords, as if presumed innocence is also a thing of the past.

I asked her if she heard about the Snoopers Charter that had been quietly made into law this week. "Snoopy what?" she replied.

I explained that now, every citizen of this country is basically a criminal in the eyes of the law and that we all are now having evidence gathered on us whenever we log onto the Internet.

Furthermore, I showed her the ridiculous list of agencies that now have access to some of our most private information, including the Department for Work and Pensions, the Food Standards Agency, the Gambling Commission, councils and the Welsh Ambulance Services and many, many more.

Not only did the NSA/GCHQ get away scot-free with their illegal mass surveillance, but the biggest annihilation of civil rights in human history has now been made into law in the UK with barely a whimper.

I can't wait to see all the terrorists that will definitely be caught now and how safe we'll all be in future because of this.