Home Secretary ditches plans for a giant Government database tracking all emails phone calls and internet activity.

From the BBC: Plans to track all e-mails sent, all phone calls made and all internet pages visited in the UK are being unveiled by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. Ministers say the move is needed so police and the security services can investigate crime and terrorism... The data can be accessed by police on request but the government said it planned to take control of the process in order to comply w...

Following the article on the BBC that I mentioned earlier, comes this from The Metro: Ministers have backed down over plans for a centralised database of email, telephone and internet data. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said there were "absolutely no plans for a single central store" of communications data...

Home secretary rules out state-run 'super-database' but firms would store details of calls, emails, texts and web browsing The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, today ruled out building a single state "super-database" to track everybody's use of email, internet, text messages and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Smith said creating a single database run by the state...

Last week, Britain’s Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, announced plans for a central database detailing every email sent, website visited, and phone call made within Britain. However, according to Smith, the database would not contain the content of emails, phone calls, etc., but only skeletal data such as the time an email was sent, and the addresses of the sender and recipient. This data is ne...

Jacqui Smith the Home Secretary scrapped plans for a national communications database amid privacy fears but every email phone call and website visit will still be monitored by the Government.

Plans for a huge expansion of email phone call and internet tracking is being launched.

The Guardian reports: The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone's calls, emails, texts and internet use under a key option contained in a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary.If that is the sort of society she wants to live in, the sooner she fucks off to Pyongyang the better. And ...

Had to laugh at Home Secretary Jacqui "Spliff" Smith's protestations of total innocence concerning the unfortunate matter that she claimed for pay per view television services, reportedly including two adult films. Jacqui Smith says she..ahem... "mistakenly" claimed for the TV package while billing for an internet connection. How lucky for her that this oversight was uncovered then! Jacqui al...

Apparently, Jacqui Smith’s supposed climb down on gathering all of our communications information wasn’t actually a climb down at all. What a surprise… SPY chiefs are pressing ahead with secret plans to monitor all internet use and telephone calls in Britain despite an announcement by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, of a ministerial climbdown over public