In the UK, Big Brother Recedes and Advances
PeterAitch writes “The UK government’s Home Office has put a hold on their surveillance project to track details of everybody’s email, mobile phone, text, and Web use after being warned of problems with privacy as well as technical feasibility and high costs.” Four hours before the above Guardian story was filed, the BBC reported that the same Home Office insisted that it will push ahead with plans “to compel communication service providers to collect and retain records of communications from a wider range of internet sources, from social networks through to chatrooms and unorthodox methods, such as within online games.”
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