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UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @08:54AM from the that-about-covers-it dept.

Sara Chan writes "The UK government plans to introduce legislation that will allow the police to track every phone call, email, text message and website visit made by the public. The information will include who is contacting whom, when and where and which websites are visited, but not the content of the conversations or messages. Every communications provider will be required to store the information for at least a year."

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Senationalist headline by elrous0 · 2010-10-20 08:56 · Score: 5, Informative

How about: *Proposal* in UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls?

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Re:Encrypte Everything by dotKuro · 2010-10-20 09:00 · Score: 5, Informative

Encryption of your files is worthless when you can be arrested for failing to give up passwords as per the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. (Which would be more accurately named the Irregulation of Investigatory Powers Act, as it pretty much declares open season on those under suspicion.)