July 11, 2005
Clarke wants to track email and phone messages
UK home secretary, Charles Clarke, will make a fresh push to compel internet and phone companies to retain their records of traffic on millions of private emails, text messages and mobile phone calls for up to three years at an emergency meeting of European security ministers on Wednesday. [The Guardian ]
"Critics say the scheme will generate such a mountain of data - enough to fill 10 stacks of files reaching from Earth to the moon - that it would take the security services 50 years to run one search.
The plan emerged as Mr Clarke made it clear yesterday that he was resisting calls to rush through other new counter-terrorism legislation".
Related:
-- EU: Phone conversations to be archived
-- Korea: Mobile Carriers to Keep Text Message Records
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