UK: Internet traffic, cell-phone database pondered
The BBC reports:
Proposals for a central database of all mobile phone and internet traffic have been condemned as “Orwellian”.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the police and security services needed new powers to keep up with technology.
And she promised that the content of conversations would not be stored, just times and dates of messages and calls….
She said: “Our ability to intercept communications and obtain communications data is vital to fighting terrorism and combating serious crime, including child sex abuse, murder and drugs trafficking.
Via The Brussels Journal.