UK Government will spy on every call and e-mail

[Soulmate7]

Ministers are considering spending up to £12 billion on a database to monitor and store the internet browsing habits, e-mail and telephone records of everyone in Britain.

GCHQ, the government’s eavesdropping centre, has already been given up to £1 billion to finance the first stage of the project.

Hundreds of clandestine probes will be installed to monitor customers live on two of the country’s biggest internet and mobile phone providers - thought to be BT and Vodafone. BT has nearly 5m internet customers.

Ministers are braced for a backlash similar to the one caused by their ID cards programme. Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, said: “Any suggestion of the government using existing powers to intercept communications data without public discussion is going to sound extremely sinister.”

MI5 currently conducts limited e-mail and website intercepts which are approved under specific warrants by the home secretary.

Further details of the new plan will be unveiled next month in the Queen’s speech.

The Home Office stressed no formal decision had been taken but sources said officials had made clear that ministers had agreed “in principle” to the programme.

Officials claim live monitoring is necessary to fight terrorism and crime. However, critics question whether such a vast system can be kept secure. A total of 57 billion text messages were sent in the UK last year - 1,800 every second.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4882600.ece

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[Sol Invictus]

Its called Praetorian guard and its already up and running. This bill will give retrospective permission for its existence. What they don't tell you is that its also linked into all biometric cameras and data bases for fututre use.

This is the cage door to the electronic prison, and its about to be slammed shut.

[Professor Nordheim]

The same thing is happening here in Norway as well. The War on Terror Inc. is truly a war againt us all. Norway has introduced ePassports. From June 2009 fingerprints will be added as a biometric identifier in the chip. Norway plan a national ID-card from 2009 with biometric identifiers ala ePP, and eID. By 2010 all new cars will be equipped with eCall telematics.

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