I never read the Daily Express but someone forwarded me a link to a story on their site detailing information of a new project being put together but GCHQ that will track, monitor and report on all communication traffic from here in the UK. The apparent top-secret plans were leaked which detailed the £12billlion project.
The express reports that all telephone calls, emails and text messages would be monitored in an attempt to combat terrorism, pedophile related activities and online fraud. Thousands of bugs and probes would be installed across the telephone exchange systems and capture and process all information. Michael Parket of the of anti-identity card group No2ID commented:
“It is a shocking intrusion into privacy. This is stalking. If an individual carried out this sort of snooping, it would be a crime. This database could have no practical use at all. It would be so big, it would be impossible to find anything useful.”
I’m not sure if this kind of thing is even possible, billions of emails a day must be sent and received and hundreds of millions of text messages so whatever has the job of crunching this data has to be massive.
How does a plan like this get out anyway? Surley the Governement should be on its best behaviour these days after the recent lost data scandals.
P.S anyone else think that the font used on the Daily Express website is shocking?
