UK Plans More Spying On Internet Users Under 'Terrorism' Pretext

Wowsers writes "In vogue with other countries cracking down on freedom and democracy on the internet as discussed in Slashdot recently, the UK is joining in with plans to track all phone calls, text messages, email traffic and websites visited online, all to be stored in vast databases under new government anti-terror plans. As reported in The Telegraph, security services will have access to information about who has been communicating with each other on social networking sites such as Facebook, direct messages between subscribers on Twitter would also be stored, as well as communications between players in online video games. The scheme is a revised version of a plan drawn up by the ex-Labour government which would have created a central database of all the information. The idea was later dropped in favor of requiring communications providers to store the details at the taxpayers' expense."

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Re:How far do we go to fight terrorism?

[Anonymous Coward]

Israel needs the security and surveillance because it literally has bombers and shooters in it's midsts.

We don't.

Really?, I bet you I could go to certain parts of the UK, throw a stone, hit at least one or two.
(actually, I couldn't, as a white face, I'd be in deep shit even walking the streets there..)
In the past, the UK had the 'Irish' problem, I could have done the same in certain pubs in London, but, again, they were 'no-go' if you weren't Irish (republican variety).
The Irish terrorists (of both religious/political persuasions) and their guns haven't magically disappeared from the UK mainland, the Muslims are building up their stockpiles, the right wing nutjobs probably have theirs (though the police keep busting them).

Note: I'm not in favour of this surveillance BS.