Britain: Government Wants All Internet Activity Kept for One Year

Britain: Government Wants All Internet Activity Kept for One Year

June 14th, 2012

Via: BBC:

Details of internet use in the UK will have to be stored for a year to allow police and intelligence services to access it, under government plans.

Records will include people’s activity on social network sites, webmail, internet phone calls and online gaming.

Home Secretary Theresa May said the change was needed to keep up with how criminals were using new technology.

But senior Tory David Davis said it was “incredibly intrusive” and would only “catch the innocent and incompetent”.

The Communications Data Bill has been published in draft form – but the government faces a battle to get it through Parliament intact, with Lib Dem MPs and Conservatives such as Mr Davis calling for it to be watered down or abandoned altogether.

Related: Coming Soon: Retroactive Surveillance on Anyone

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