Campaigners criticise email and web monitoring plan

[dipsydoodle]

Civil liberties groups have criticised plans for the government to be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK.

Internet firms will be required to give intelligence agency GCHQ access to communications in real time under new legislation set to be announced soon.

Tory MP David Davis called it "an unnecessary extension of the ability of the state to snoop on ordinary people".

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Attempts by the last Labour government to take similar steps failed after huge opposition, including from the Conservatives.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17580906

[oldironside]

1. Thank God I'm in Deutschland.

My ultimate nightmare is the government getting my browsing history and sending a copy to my mother.

[fedsron2us]

2. I think it is very kind of the government

to volunteer to deal with all the spam, junk mail , nuisance texts and irritating phone calls I receive. I shall therefore be forwarding them all to my local MP and the PM. If everyone in the UK did the same then they might go off the idea of this barmy snooping legislation.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Best comment ever!

I'd be very happy to let the government deal with all the telephone nagging that I get to (a) buy a new conservatory; (b) have some dodgy types deal with my non-existent PPI claims; or (c) deal with some ambulance-chasing lawyer who claims there's been an accident at my address within the last three years, which there hasn't. Good idea!