UK gov massive net snoop plan

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Definite overkill, and ....................I...I...uhm...I...I....WTF to say Big Brother

Store & record everything. Browsing, IMs. eMail, texting, Voip, chat, virtual worlds interaction, ....everything.

An ongoing Home Office consultation, published in April, proposes that access providers store and process the terabytes of data such a system would harvest daily, at a cost to taxpayers of £2bn over 10 years. It argues authorities' capability to access communications data during investigations and intelligence gathering is being eroded by the internet.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/19/imp_ispa/