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Spy chiefs plot £12bn IT spree for comms überdatabase

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Spy chiefs plot £12bn IT spree for comms überdatabase: “

Black boxes to keep Black’s firm in the black

Billions of pounds of public money will soon be up for grabs for private IT contractors ready to serve the Interception Modernisation Programme - UK spy chiefs’ plan to store details of every call, email, text and web browsing session.…

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(Via The Register - Public Sector.)

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Snoop more, share less - Home Office spurns EU advice

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Snoop more, share less - Home Office spurns EU advice: “

Databases not safe, says database-loving gov

Government responses to two outwardly unrelated bits of EU policy go a long way to explain what it really thinks about the War on Terror and the rights of individual citizens.…

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(Via The Register - Public Sector.)

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Report of the UK Intelligence Services Commissioner for 2007

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Report of the Intelligence Services Commissioner for 2007: “Report of the Intelligence Services Commissioner for 2007

No 0948 2007–08, 22 July 2008: Available as a Full Text (PDF) file.

Published by The Stationery Office (TSO): ISBN 9780102957372″

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