EVERY email to your child. Every status update for your friends. Every message to your mistress.
The UK government is preparing proposals for a nationwide electronic surveillance network that could potentially keep track of every message sent by any Brit to anyone at any time, an industry official briefed on the government’s moves said overnight.
Plans for a massive government database of the country’s phone and email traffic were abandoned in 2008 following a public outcry. But James Blessing of the Internet Service Providers‘ Association said the government appears to be „reintroducing it on a slightly different format.“
Mr Blessing said the move was disclosed to his association by Britain’s Home Office during a meeting in recent weeks. (more on dailytelegraph.com.au)
