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| Plans to track all e-mails sent, all phone calls made and all internet pages visited in the UK are to be unveiled by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. | Plans to track all e-mails sent, all phone calls made and all internet pages visited in the UK are to be unveiled by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. |
| Ministers say the move is needed so police and the security services can investigate crime and terrorism. | Ministers say the move is needed so police and the security services can investigate crime and terrorism. |
| The Interception Modernisation Programme may include a giant database to store billions of details. | The Interception Modernisation Programme may include a giant database to store billions of details. |
| Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said:"We must not allow ourselves to become a Big Brother society." | |
| The consultation about the programme, which is to track details of when and where electronic communications are made but not their content, has already been delayed. | The consultation about the programme, which is to track details of when and where electronic communications are made but not their content, has already been delayed. |
| Take control | Take control |
| Ministers say it is merely intended to update powers which already exist for ordinary phone calls to cover data and information online - such as internet-based phone calls. | Ministers say it is merely intended to update powers which already exist for ordinary phone calls to cover data and information online - such as internet-based phone calls. |
| Details of the times, dates, duration and locations of mobile phone calls, numbers called, websites visited and addresses e-mailed are already stored by telecommunications companies for 12 months under a voluntary agreement. | Details of the times, dates, duration and locations of mobile phone calls, numbers called, websites visited and addresses e-mailed are already stored by telecommunications companies for 12 months under a voluntary agreement. |
| It is a hallmark of free societies that whilst the police target criminal suspects, government does not monitor the entire population Shami ChakrabartiLiberty | It is a hallmark of free societies that whilst the police target criminal suspects, government does not monitor the entire population Shami ChakrabartiLiberty |
| 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 with an EU directive and make it easier for investigators to do their job. | 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 with an EU directive and make it easier for investigators to do their job. |
| Information would be kept for two years by law and may be held centrally on a searchable database. | Information would be kept for two years by law and may be held centrally on a searchable database. |
| When the idea of the database emerged last year the Liberal Democrats called the idea of a giant database "Orwellian". | |
| Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil rights group Liberty, said: "It is a hallmark of free societies that whilst the police target criminal suspects, government does not monitor the entire population." | Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil rights group Liberty, said: "It is a hallmark of free societies that whilst the police target criminal suspects, government does not monitor the entire population." |
| Former Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald said: "This database would be an unimaginable hell house of personal private information. It would be a complete read-out of every citizen's life in the most intimate and demeaning detail." | Former Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald said: "This database would be an unimaginable hell house of personal private information. It would be a complete read-out of every citizen's life in the most intimate and demeaning detail." |