State to 'spy' on citizens in UK.

All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer’s personal communications, showing who they have contacted, when and where, as well as the websites they have visited.

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They will not require the permission of a judge or a magistrate to obtain the information, but simply the authorisation of a senior police officer or the equivalent of a deputy head of department at a local authority.


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State to 'spy' on every phone call, email and web search

This is indeed going to be interesting to see how this item works out. I had thought that they already had mechanisms like this in place. If not completely like the news details, at least there are enough measures to find out enough about someone's criminal activity. Having systems like the one described is only going to be used to target the general public than the minority who indulge in unscrupulous activity.

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  1. :) Invest in storage technologies! The telcom companies will require humongous storage capabilities

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