Home Office calls for a 'Big Brother' database

                   
heise-online.co.uk     22-May-2008            

The Home Office is preparing a new Communications Data Bill to be published in draft form for pre-legislative scrutiny later this year. The bill may contain plans to create a vast consolidated database tracking all telephone calls made and all e-mails sent in the UK, over a rolling 12 month time... [read full story]                    

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Government mulls plan to store all e-mails and phone calls

tiscali.co.uk     21-May-2008          

LONDON (Reuters) - A massive government database which would store everybody’s e-mails, Internet information, phone-calls and text messages is being considered to help security forces in the fight against crime and terrorism. At the moment, records of phone-calls and text messages are kept up to...                    

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Privacy watchdog criticises proposed communication database

vnunet.com     21-May-2008          

Tom Young, Computing, Wednesday 21 May 2008 at 10:19:00 ICO says database is a disproportianate response to terrorism The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has criticised a proposed government plan to create a database of mobile phone and internet communications.... > Read the full article                    

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