This crosses a line

Targeted surveillance is already within the powers of the secret services. The new law additionally allows for untargeted surveillance, for the systematic and large-scale interception and analysis of citizens' online communications. Large numbers of citizens who are not suspected of any wrongdoing can be systematically monitored. For us this means a line has been crossed. For if we don’t draw the line at the interception and analysis of the online behavior of large groups of people, we may not be able to draw it anywhere.