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Government Outlines Plans For Web Monitoring
- BBC , Thursday, June 14, 2012 1:14 PM
Details of internet use in the UK will have to be stored for a year to allow police and intelligence services to have access it, under government plans. Records will include people's activity on social network sites, webmail, internet phone calls and online gaming. Home Secretary Theresa May said the change was needed to keep up with how criminals were using new technology. But senior Tory David Davis said it was "incredibly intrusive" and would only "catch the innocent and incompetent".
