Privacy chief fights UK-wide database / Silicon.com, 15 July 2008
http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/datalockdown/0,3800014480,39259986,00.htm
Nick Heath
"The UK's privacy tsar has made a plea to the government not to rush through a centralised database of all UK communications. Speaking at the launch of the Information Commissioner Officer's Annual Report 2008 Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said the rumoured database of UK phone and internet communications would be "a step too far for the British way of life". A database of all calls, emails and internet traffic, to be stored by the Home Office for at least 12 months, is thought to be included under proposals for "modifying procedures for acquiring communications data" in the draft Communications Data Bill."
ICO Annual Report: http://www.ico.gov.uk/Home/about_us/what_we_do/corporate_information/annual_reports.aspx