U.K. to monitor, store all social-network traffic?
The U.K. government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo.
Vernon Coaker the U.K. Home Office security minister, on Monday said the EU Data Retention Directive, under which Internet service providers must store communications data for 12 months, does not go far enough. Communications such as those on social-networking sites and via instant-messaging services could also be monitored, he said.
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This is a stupid idea. That probably goes without saying. I think this is just going to set up an arms race between those who don't want to be found, who you won't find anyway, and those who want to find them. There's a revolution coming...Stick that in your monitoring device and smoke it!
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