Communications Capabilities Development Programme
The Communications Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP) is a UK government initiative to create a ubiquitous mass surveillance scheme for the United Kingdom.[1] It would involve the logging of every telephone call, email and text message between every inhabitant of the UK,[2][3] and is intended to extend beyond the realms of conventional telecommunications media to log communications within social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.[4]
It is the successor to the former Labour government's Interception Modernisation Programme,[2] which after apparently being cancelled, was revived by the Liberal-Conservative coalition government in their 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review.[5]
References
- ^ Steve McCaskill (February 20, 2012). "UK Government To Demand Data On Every Call And Email". TechWeek Europe.
- ^ a b Stewart Mitchell (February 20, 2012). "Anger over mass web surveillance plans". PC Pro.
- ^ David Barrett (18 Feb 2012). "Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan". Daily Telegraph.
- ^ Tom Espiner (20 February 2012). "ISPs kept in dark about UK's plans to intercept Twitter". ZDNet.
- ^ Alan Deane (20 October 2010). "A U-turn on reversing the surveillance state". New Statesman.
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