Facebook, Bebo and MySpace 'to be monitored by security services'


	Facebook, Bebo and MySpace 'to be monitored by security services'

hjharris

3-26-2009 3:48 AM

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The private correspondence of millions of people who use social networking
sites could be tracked and saved on a “big brother” database, under new
plans being drawn up by the UK government.
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Ministers revealed yesterday that they were considering policing messages sent
via sites such as MySpace and Facebook, alongside plans to store information
about every phone call, e-mail and internet visit made by everyone in the
United Kingdom.
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"That is one reason why the Government is looking at what we should do
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Rik Ferguson, a security expert at Trend Micro, the internet security firm,
said: “The Home Office insists that this information is vital for fighting
crime and terrorism; but is this legislation really going to be effective
against the people at whom it is supposedly aimed?
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