UK govt to snoop on every phone call
Times of India >> 26th April 2009
The Gordon Brown government has revealed that it plans to monitor every phone call, email or website visit.Plans for this exercise are to be unveiled next week, reports The Telegraph. According to the paper, the proposals will give police and security services the power to snoop on every single communication made by the public with the data then likely to be stored in an enormous national database.
The precise content of calls and other communications would not be accessible but even text messages and visits to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter would be tracked.
The move branded “Orwellian” has alarmed civil liberty campaigners, and the country’s data protection watchdog last night warned the proposals would be “unacceptable”.