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UK: Guardian article on plans for a vast central database of our emails, phone calls and texts will see everyone monitored as a potential suspect

01 October 2008

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Guardian article (link)

See: Statewatch's Observatory: Telephone tapping (and mail-opening figures) 1937-2007

See also: There’s no hiding place as spy HQ plans to see all (Sunday Times, link) and Communications Data Bill (pdf) Announcement of government plans to retain internet usage in forthcoming Bill (in addition to powers already adopted to retain communications data for phone-calls, faxes and mobile calls)

For context see: critique in: The Shape of Things to Come of "Internet of Things", the "digital tsunami" and surveillance by public security agencies.

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