UK intelligence services will have new powers to access swathes of our data, which could be shared with the US during a Trump presidency, warns Ray Corrigan

GCHQ Bude: an eavesdropping centre on the North Cornwall coast, UK Richie Johns/Getty

In the shadow of authoritarian populist Donald Trump’s election victory in the US, politicians in Brexit Britain have quietly passed the most pervasive and invasive mass surveillance legislation in history.

The Investigatory Powers Bill is 304 pages of complex permissions for the UK intelligence and security services, police and other public bodies to engage in bulk interception, acquisition and retention of the entire population’s communications data and all other communications crossing the UK. It also grants access to bulk personal datasets, including those held by individuals, …