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Apparently a change of law this year shall force ISPs to withhold information about each and every e-mail sent or received in the UK. This shall be in force for an year. This not only seems like a waste of the tax-payers money but an attack on privacy and civil rights.

Where human rights group Liberty is voicing concerns, Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty states ISPs retain such info on a voluntary basis already. Let us know whether this move is right or not? Have your say.

Dr. Richard Clayton, a security researcher at the University of Cambridge’s computer lab says otherwise:

There are much better things to do to spend our billions on than snooping on everybody in the country just on the off-chance that they’re a criminal.