Living close to a sensitive location we do get the occasional islander flight weeks in advance of an event as a rule. These can surely only be of use in specifically defined situations and limited in their ability to collect and store data. Much more to worry about from interception storage and potential rearranging/photoshopping/voice altering your Whats app/Tinder/Gmail/Skype etc etc by the spooks rather than a few islanders poodling around on an import but very focussed specific job I would hava thought.
As for the free but extremely biased press they can be very selective about what and who they complain about but at least they do make a noise from time to time