Telcos renew calls to limit metadata retention

Because politicians/leaders have nothing to hide, right?

What's the odds that if some of the "metadata" and browsing history from David Irvine and other government leaders were brought to light, they might change their opinion about the virtues of this invasion of privacy?

Besides, any real threats to national security would already be employing countermeasures against this kind of surveillance; VPNs, encrypted messages, cheap prepaid phones, proxies, tor, etc.