http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5439604.ece

THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain
routinely to hack into people's personal computers without a warrant. 

They point out that in contrast to the legal safeguards for searching a
suspect's home, police undertaking a remote search do not need to apply to a
magistrates' court for a warrant.