On the initiative of the security services works for the British government to legislation which should enable to real-time phone and internet traffic monitoring. Privacybeschermers qualify the proposals as unacceptable and dangerous.
That reports The Telegraph on the basis of unnamed sources. According to the newspaper, in the context of new anti-terrorism legislation worked on proposals for the Communications Capabilities Development Programme. In there, internet service providers and telecom companies are obliged to data about telephony and data traffic for a year in databases. The content of phone calls or e-mails would not be preserved, but in the databases should, however, contact information like phone numbers, ip addresses and e-mail addresses can be found.
The databases would be by intelligence agencies as MI5, MI6 and the police real-time searched. So, for example, a suspicious person mobile phone calls run quickly detected. The proposals would, however, go even further: users of social-networking sites would be mapped. So want the proponents to gain insight into messages that users of, among others, Facebook and Twitter to each other, while even communication between players of multiplayer games to follow should be.
The ministry of Home Affairs would take all of two months, negotiations were entered into with companies such as O2, BT, Vodafone and Virgin Media, while the bills in may by the British government made public can be. Although the Conservative prime minister Cameron at his inauguration promised the confidentiality is of high importance to have, seem to be intelligence agencies, with success, the pressure to have exercised a previously killed bill the government Blair to breathe new life into.
British advocates for privacy have been reluctant to respond to the plans for a ‘spionagewet’. This is what the Open Rights Group and is an unacceptable ‘systematic method’ to get all the digital communications of citizens to drain. In addition to the question of whether the proposals are technically feasible, notify the organization that the information stored is highly attractive for hackers. Also would isps can abuse the collected data of their users, for example, for targeted advertising. From the organization Privacy International sound similar sounds, but a government spokesman late in a response to the British newspaper to know that the legislation is necessary to crime and terrorism and to effectively combat.