Plan to monitor all internet use {in UK} (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Dominic Casciani
BBC News home affairs reporter

Communications firms are being asked to record all internet contacts between people as part of a modernisation in UK police surveillance tactics.

The home secretary scrapped plans for a database but wants details to be held and organised for security services.

The new system would track all e-mails, phone calls and internet use, including visits to social network sites.

The Tories said the Home Office had "buckled under Conservative pressure" in deciding against a giant database.

Announcing a consultation on a new strategy for communications data and its use in law enforcement, Jacqui Smith said there would be no single government-run database.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8020039.stm

[LakeSamish706]

1. I don't think this will go over very well with average citizen.... Certainly an abuse of rights. n/

[Vidar]

2. Unfortunately, Britain is even more of a nanny/big brother state than we are.