UK may store all phone calls and emails / New Scientist, 20 May 2008
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn13942-uk-may-store-all-phone-calls-and-emails.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
"The UK government is considering a massive database to store every person's emails, phone calls, text messages and internet use. The plan was suggested as a tool to help security forces tackling crime and terrorism. At the moment, records of phone calls and text messages are kept for up to 12 months by telecoms companies, in compliance with a European Union anti-terrorism directive. But a new proposal by the UK Home Office would see internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies handing over records containing billions of emails as well as Internet usage and voice-over-Internet calls."