This is indeed scary… as the Orwellian notion of Big Brother watching (eavesdropping in this instance) via the Metropolitan Police (in Britain) employing a seriously high-tech (007-ish) surveillance system that can masquerade as a mobile phone network smacks of nothing short of 1984… Dracula; Frankenstein; the Mummy and Werewolf hardly rate in comparison…
(Source) The Guardian UK: http://goo.gl/p392u