Britain’s intelligence agencies are planning to install black box-style surveillance devices in the country's telecommunications network in order

According to a report published on Tuesday by the Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), the devices referred to as "probes", are meant to underpin a nationwide surveillance regime to log nearly everything Britons do online.

The report, which was carried out into the use of communications data by the intelligence and security agencies, said snooping devices will utilize Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, as part of the coalition government's efforts to increasingly monitor web traffic, including Facebook, Twitter, and Skype.

The committee noted that existing laws "do not cover the problems of emerging technology," and that there should be a "new approach."

Jonathan Evans, the head of Britain's domestic intelligence service MI5, also claimed that "access to communications data of one sort or another is very important indeed."

Civil liberties campaigners have described the controversial proposals by the British government included in the Communications Data Bill as the Snooper’s Charter, because they believe the draft bill is a significant threat to people’s privacy.

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