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Britain Unveils Electronic Mass Surveillance Plan
British authorities on Thursday unveiled an ambitious plan to log details about every Web visit, email, phone call or text message in the U.K. – and in a sharply-worded editorial the nation's top law enforcement official accused those worried about the surveillance program of being either criminals or conspiracy theorists.
The government insists it's not after content. It promises not to read the body of emails or eavesdrop on phone calls without a warrant. But the surveillance proposed in the government's 118-page draft bill would provide authorities a remarkably rich picture of their citizens' day-to-day lives, tracking nearly everything they do online, over the phone, or even through the post.
All that data would be kept for up to a year – ready for browsing whenever anyone in authority wanted it. In some cases, the bill envisages monitoring the information in real time.
Read more here: http://ap.stripes.com/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_MASS_SURVEILLANCE?SITE=DCSAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-06-14-11-57-48
Time to start encrypting everything.