"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
Thought Police - 1984, George Orwell

Category Archives: telephone monitoring

Spy Chiefs Plan to Monitor Internet Traffic

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Posted by paul on May 4, 2009 – 11:43 pm
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GCHQ Headquarters in CheltenhamYesterday (3rd May 2009) The Register, a UK online technology publisher, along with the Sunday Times published details on how the government’s surveillance service GCHQ is building a system to monitor all UK internet traffic and telephone calls.

The GCHQ project is called “Mastering the Internet” (MTI) which sums it all up perfectly!

The articles quote sources as saying that the UK Government through its various agencies is spending up to £1 billion on MTI projects – just to keep an eye on you and the bad guys!

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Most people in the UK oppose data retention laws

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Posted by paul on April 27, 2009 – 3:31 am
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Metro NewspaperA recent  poll by the Metro newspaper showed that most people don’t want their internet browsing and e-mails intercepted by the UK Government.

The UK Government recently introduced new laws requiring all ISPs and telecommunication companies to record details about all internet traffic, e-mails and telephone calls that pass through their systems.

In the survey 60% of Britons rejected the European directive requiring all communications to be recorded to help crack down on criminals.

It appears that people don’t trust the UK Government to store and analyse the data correctly.

Maybe the Government wants to keep track of all that Viagra spam you’ve been receiving?