Government black boxes will 'collect every email'

[Roland Perry]

In article <Pine.SOC.4.64.0811051254220.509@bowling.cent.gla.ac.uk>, 
Chris Edwards <chris@eng.gla.ac.uk> writes
>Kinda looks like they mean email traffic data:
>
>"database holding information about every phone call, email and internet
>visit"
>
>"it is not their intention to introduce monitoring or storage equipment
>that will check or hold the content of emails or phonecalls on the
>traffic"

This is not a surprise (either the fact you mention, or the conflation 
with intercepting content). Surely the outline of this has been 
available for years in the Data Retention Directive. More recently in 
the consultation:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2008-transposition
-- 
Roland Perry