Big Brother to give all-access pass to your personal emails and text

Our alien ways must be strange and confusing. Current is a TV station and a website. You canour channel, contribute , and pick the .The Home Office set out a proposal to allow local councils, health authorities and hundreds of other public bodies the power to access details of everyone's ... ...text, emails and internet. The plan is to make it mandatory for phone and internet companies to store details (this never is good in the UK lately) of ALL PERSONAL traffic for at least a year. In case they need it for investigations... or so they can leave it on a train for some random to find. That's right, not just suspected individuals, but everyone."The Home Office last night admitted that the measure will mean companies have to store "a billion incidents of data exchange a day". As the measure is the result of an EU directive, the data will be made available to public investigators across Europe. The consultation paper published yesterday estimates that it will cost the internet industry over £50m to store the mountain of data.This is absolutely ridiculous! How on earth are they planning on slipping this one through parliament?This is significant enough that the PM should be making an announcement about it to the nation, but as ever it's going to be brought in through the back door and the majority of people will probably never realise it is going on.Once this system is in place they will soon enough recommend that content people download be stored as well, they'll just keep chipping away until they have everything on everyone.England needs to wake up and get wise to this fast.

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