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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-management/2010/07/29/government-monitoring-requests-rise-for-phone-email-40089682/"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-management/2010/07/29/government-monitoring-requests-rise-for-phone-email-40089682/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb">“</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en">The Interception of Communications Commissioner has revealed that police and other agencies made 21,000 more requests for citizens' communications data in 2009 than the previous year. </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en">“</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en">Sir Paul Kennedy disclosed in his annual report that in 2009, public authorities made 525,130 data requests to ISPs to view people's phone and email records. That figure compares with a total of</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"> 504,073 requests in 2008</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en">. </SPAN></P>
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