[LINK] UK government plans to log every call, text and email

[Marghanita da Cruz]

The actual paper is available here (50 pages downloaded surprisingly quickly!):
<http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2008-transposition?view=Binary>

It refers to a EU directive:
> Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC 
<http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32006L0024:EN:HTML>

Marghanita
Howard Lowndes wrote:
> 
> David Boxall wrote:
>> <http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2223898/uk-government-plans-log-every-web-email>
>>> The Home office has issued a consultation paper 
>>> <http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2008-transposition?view=Binary> 
>>> for a new law that would force phone companies, ISPs and network 
>>> operators to record and store every phone call, web page request and 
>>> text message.
>>>
>>> The information would have to be stored for 12 months by service 
>>> providers and would be searchable by a wide variety of organisations,
> 
> ...and thus externalising enormous costs and impractical requirements.
> 
> 
>>> including local councils, health authorities, and even Ofsted and the 
>>> Post Office.
>>>
> 


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