Although the coalition government scrapped plans for a central information database and ID cards, they have quietly reintroduced proposals for ISPs and CSPs to maintain databases of internet and telecoms traffic which they will be able to intercept, and not only in the “interests of national security”.

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The government has announced that it will be spending up to £2 billion on new ways to snoop on email and web traffic.

This intrusive “Intercept Modernisation Plan”, stopped near the end of the last government, has now been quietly revived in the 2010 Spending Review. While billions of pounds are being slashed from education, legal aid and welfare, the government plans to waste vast sums snooping on our emails and Facebook communications.

The Home Office now says that the use of IMP will not be limited to terrorism or organised crime.

Tell the government to stop this wasteful, intrusive plan for wholesale invasion of our privacy.

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