Big Brother is not even trying to pretend he doesn’t exist anymore. There is no crackpot soapbox ranting, no crazy conspiracy theorizing, no paranoid citizenry necessary when even Yahoo.com is reporting on the UK’s massive breach of privacy.
…the UK has put into effect a European Union directive which mandates the archival of information regarding virtually all internet traffic for the next 12 months. The program formally goes into effect today. The data retention rules require the archival of all email traffic (the identities of the sender and receiver, but not the contents of the messages), records of VOIP telephone calls (traditional phone calls are already monitored), and information about every website visited by any computer user in the country.
