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Originally Posted by peachy  Crazy, how far will they take it? Will simple forums hosted or operating in UK be asked to do the same? |
It's worse than that. They want to monitor
all internet access and e-mails.
Gov't planning centralised communications database Quote:
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Privacy and IT security experts have reacted with horror to reported government plans that would see UK citizens' internet and telephony usage details stored in a massive centralised database.
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Internet black boxes to record every email and website visit Quote:
Under Government plans to monitor internet traffic, raw data would be collected and stored by the black boxes before being transferred to a giant central database.
The vision was outlined at a meeting between officials from the Home Office and Internet Service Providers earlier this week.
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The
Related Articles on that page contain some scary looking items, such as "Town halls could get new data powers". Do you really want your next door neighbour to have access to what should be confidential data?
It doesn't end there either:
Government plans travel database Quote:
The government is compiling a database to track and store the international travel records of millions of Britons.
Computerised records of all 250 million journeys made by individuals in and out of the UK each year will be kept for up to 10 years.
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Guess who has a
quarter of the world's CCTV cameras?