ABSTRACT
China closely copied the main thrust of the Investigatory Powers Act, the 'Snoopers' Charter' which demanded telecommunications companies store the bulk metadata of UK citizens. In Mexico, attacks on journalists are promoted less through appeals to nationalism and the cult of the personality than the politics of power and money. Outrage from Western nations is reserved for causes which appear safer than offending a rich and powerful strategic ally. Clearly journalism's job is made that much more difficult when the countries with the world's worst human rights records are being supplied with surveillance equipment by those nations who supposedly uphold the ideals of free speech which are so clearly threatened. The question of how to resist the surveillance ideology that is increasingly afflicting the work of journalists, in the guise of combating terrorism is not a simple one.
