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.
Government will spy on every call and e-mail via Times Online
And here I thought this sort of stuff only happened in America.
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hey, mr. b & jonathan d. - what can you tell us about this?
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They sure do grow some small potatoes in the UK. They’re so cute.
3 years ago