Rejected petition Say no to institutional communication datamining

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The Home Office seems to intend to try and pass legislation akin to the failed US SOPA bill

"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.
Direct messages between subscribers to websites such as Twitter and Facebook would also be stored, as well as communications between players in online video games."
David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent
- The Telegraph

The overwhelming international response to this type of legislation in the US was evidence that this kind of state sponsored spying is not something anyone is willing to accept. It is akin to draining the oceans to catch some fish. There are cases in which terror suspects communications may well need to be monitored, but treating every single UK citizen as a suspect is not the way to go about it. This legislation should be scrapped before it even has the opportunity to begin.

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Date submitted 20 February 2012
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