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User ID: 11116653 United States 02/20/2012 12:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan (UK) Details of every phone call and text message, email traffic and websites visited online are to be stored in a series of vast databases under new Government anti-terror plans. Landline and mobile phone companies and broadband providers will be ordered to store the data for a year and make it available to the security services under the scheme. The databases would not record the contents of calls, texts or emails but the numbers or email addresses of who they are sent and received by. For the first time, the security services will have widespread access to information about who has been communicating with each other on social networking sites such as Facebook. Direct messages between subscribers to websites such as Twitter would also be stored, as well as communications between players in online video games. The Home Office is understood to have begun negotiations with internet companies in the last two months over the plan, which could be officially announced as early as May. [ link to www.telegraph.co.uk] Last Edited by Berny on 02/20/2012 12:34 PM |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1159235 United States 02/20/2012 12:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan (UK) ...in the UK. Your link clarifies it, but it really isn't stated in the post. This is not happening in America...yet (or maybe it is - cue ominous Star Wars music) |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 11098011 United Kingdom 02/20/2012 12:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan (UK) oh well, in for a penny, in for a pound! FUCK THE GOVERNMENT! i probably shouldn't have done that. |
Berny (OP)
User ID: 11116653 United States 02/20/2012 12:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan (UK) I apologize for not specifying but even though it is not happening here (yet) it is important for people to be aware that our privacy is being taken away from us. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 11169526 United States 02/20/2012 04:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan (UK) |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1515671 France 02/20/2012 09:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan (UK) bump |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1455606 United Kingdom 02/20/2012 09:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan (UK) I'm petty sure they are already stored.. but thanks for the re cap |