Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan

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Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan

telegraph.co.uk | 10:06 am Feb 19, 2012

Landline and mobile phone companies and broadband providers will be ordered to store the data for a year and make it available to the security services under the scheme. The databases would not record the contents of calls, texts or emails but the numbers…
A seven-year-old branded a bigot. How on earth have we come to this?

dailymail.co.uk | 5:41 pm Feb 20, 2012

The word ‘Orwellian’ has become over-used to the point of cliche. Yet there is really no other way to describe the deeply sinister, upside-down onslaught upon common sense that has extended even into the school playgrounds of politically correct Britain.

Ah Daily Mail. Whose picture of "George Orwell, left" is actually of John Hurt in the film of '1984' - http://t.co/DdYrvtyJ (ht @OliverKamm)

@kayaburgess - Kaya Burgess (Times)

11:18 am Feb 20, 2012
Daily Mail illustrates Melanie Phillips' column with pic of "George Orwell" - in fact, John Hurt playing Winston Smith. http://t.co/ANG8NTZb

@OliverKamm - Oliver Kamm

11:13 am Feb 20, 2012