Monday, 27 April 2009

Building a bigger haystack

From the BBC:

Plans to track all e-mails sent, all phone calls made and all internet pages visited in the UK are being unveiled by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. Ministers say the move is needed so police and the security services can investigate crime and terrorism...

The data can be accessed by police on request but the government said it planned to take control of the process in order to comply with an EU directive and make it easier for investigators to do their job.


It strikes me that they have absolutely no idea what they are playing at.

2 comments:

Stan said...

What would be the point of a massive and expensive database to store intercepts when intercept evidence is inadmissible in court?

Mark Wadsworth said...

S, that is on the long list of evidence for the fact that they don't have a clue.