Monday, April 2, 2012

New powers to record every phone call and email in the UK


From The Telegraph:

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The Coalition is to revive plans first raised then shelved by the last Labour Government to track the activities of every Briton who uses a phone or the internet.

Proposed new powers, to be unveiled in the Queen’s Speech, will see a huge expansion in the amount of data communication providers are required to keep for at least a year.

It will allow the police and intelligence officers to monitor who someone is in contact with or websites they visit, although the content of such communications will not be accessed.

Civil liberty campaigners last night said the proposals were an “unprecedented” expansion of state intrusion more akin to China or Iran. Read more

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