UK Government To Monitor Facebook And Twitter Without ISP Consent

[Ink]

ISPs kept in dark about UK's plans to intercept Twitter

The government has expanded its plans to store and monitor Twitter, Facebook and other personal web communication data, but these are being created without official ISP involvement, according to an ISP representative body.

Under the plans, police and intelligence operatives will gain access to records of who has talked to whom on social networks, on instant messaging services, and in online multi-player games. The monitoring and storage are expected to be handled by ISPs, but the government's plans have not been officially shared with these companies, according to the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA).

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[Nathan Wootton]

Guess privacy is out of the window in 2012...

 

[Vextor]

Alright, if this get's more serious I'm going to simply always use TOR.

 

[ZeroDay]

This is getting past a joke now.