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UK May Require Telecommunications Providers to Store Data

Tim Banks @TM_Banks

Posted on Feb 19th, 2012 By

Categories: Europe, Privacy

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The Telegraph reported on Saturday, February 18, 2012 that phone and internet service providers in the United Kingdom may be ordered to store records of eletronic communications of subscribers for one year and make those records available to security services.  The Telegraph reports that the information would not include the contents of calls, texts or emails.  However the data would include numbers or email addresses of the sender and recipient.  The Telegraph reports that the information to be collected would also include direct messages between subscribers to websites such as Twitter, and Facebook, as well as communications between players in online video games.