The government will request Internet Service Providers and mobile phone companies to hold all communications data - websites visited, emails sent etc. - so that they can be accessed by the security services. There are strikingly similar editorial pieces in the Independent and the Telegraph, and a stronger denunciation from Henry Porter in the Guardian.
I'm curious to know how long companies will be required to hold this data, and also whether there are any specific requirements regarding the the companies' security - part of concern about the creation of a central database holding all this sensitive information (a plan which the government has dropped) is the vulnerability to such a database to unauthorised snoopers hacking their way in.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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