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It will - as recent history has repeatedly shown - be extended if found to be useful, regardless of any guarantees that it will not be subject to function creep you can quite confidently gamble your life on that very outcome.
One of the most disturbing elements is this insistence of listing protesters amongst criminals - much the same way that street photography is now seen by the public (and treated by the police) as something nefarious - something to be curtailed and prohibited - the act of protesting is slowly being made look like a minor crime in the public's eye.
The police have already rebranded lawful protest as 'domestic extremism' - and now detain and log the details of law abiding citizens at even the most innocuous protests as if a crime had been committed by attending a march.
As the months go by and more and more apparatus of a surveillance/police state is put in place, protest seems to feature as often as terrorist as a target.