It cuts both ways

I don't know if this sort of issue is prevalent or newsworthy in countries outside the UK, obsessed as it is with the youth lawlessness, but I would be interested to receive word of any examples from elsewhere in Europe. Interestingly, today we get news of the lowly mobile phone, not as agent of outrage and cheap, malicious thrills, but rather as the protector of civil liberties. Now there's some serious disruption.