"Schedule 7": Drawn into the UK anti-terror net...

[Ghost Dog]

2. Yes. As Owen Jones explains:

... Schedule 7, a legacy of New Labour authoritarianism, grants the police sweeping and unchecked powers at the border: at airports, ports and international train stations. “It allows the police to detain and question someone without any suspicion of wrongdoing,” says Millie Graham Wood, a solicitor at Privacy International. “And so they are often suffered by people who have done nothing wrong.”...

... As my sister puts it, white people like her are not normally the victims. Schedule 7 reeks of racism. According to Liberty, in 2010/11 45% of those targeted were Asian, 21% black, and a mere 8% white. The police can question those they detain for up to six hours, and keep their possessions for up to a week, while the detained have no right to remain silent and no right to a lawyer. Their basic civil rights are suspended.

The forcible downloading of data from laptops and mobile phones is chilling too...