Legislation Allows E-Mail Tracking
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Britain has been called the ‘Surveillance Society’. Justified by the need for security, there is a proliferation of surveillance cameras. Records of all telephone calls are kept in data bases. Tracking of all e-mails is forthcoming:
“…From March, all internet service providers (ISPs) will have to keep data about e-mails sent and received in the UK for a year. The content of individual e-mails will not be kept by the authorities, but the timing and number of each communication will be stored.”
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At least the government will know now how much spam each British citizen receives. The government will know every contact made by e-mail with relatives, friends, businesses and websites. In pursuing security, there is no privacy.
Catherine Forsythe