Every click recorded

As per the Daily Mail today, as part of the delightfully euphemistic "Intercept Modernisation Programme" the government is going to use our own money to monitor everything we do online.  So - not only are we going to be e-spied on by some group of faceless bureaucrats, we're going to have to pay through the nose for the privilege.

Britain owes a debt of gratitude to the Liberal Democrats for exposing the Government’s intrusive proposals, which represent a remarkable 1,700% increase on surveillance spending.

653 bodies would have the power to access this material.  Let us remember that surveillance powers under RIPA were used over half a million times last year,on everything from dog fouling to school catchment areas to putting bins out on the wrong day.  We don't even need to doubt whether the bureaucrats will use and abuse the intrusive powers being granted to them in law - we already have the proof of it.

By Alex Deane