UK Government To Demand Data On Every Call, Email, and Tweet

judgecorp writes "The UK government is proposing a law that would require phone and Internet companies to store information on all communications, and hand it to the security services when required. The Communications Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP) abandoned by the last government is back on the table, proposed as a means to increase security, and likely to be pushed through before the Olympics in London, according to reports."

Re:1984

[CimmerianX]

Nope... it starts in England. Didn't you see 'V'?

If you don't support this...

[Anonymous Coward]

... then you are a pedo terrorist who hurts animals, or something like that.

I, for one, welcome our new CCDP overlords, in my back end... and front-end... and side-end.

WHEN WILL IT EVER END?!

Re:Thank you

[Neil Boekend]

reaction from UK government: We need a very advanced AI to sort through all that data. Let's call it Skynet.

Re:1984

[Idimmu Xul]

We tried that last year.. everyone just nicked sportswear from Soccer World :(