Phonecalls and texts to be logged

Information about all landline and mobile phone calls made in the UK must be logged and stored for a year under new laws. The BBC reports.

"Data about calls made and received will also be available to 652 public bodies, including the police and councils.

The Home Office said the content of calls and texts would not be read and insisted the move was vital to tackle serious crime and terrorism.

But critics said it was another example of Britain's "surveillance society".

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