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RE: Brits consider tracking all UK Facebook traffic

jian9007 19th Mar 2009

Like here in the US, they want to monitor and collect the data under the guise of "preventing terrorism". Why would you need to blanket cover all the data for that? They never mention any searching for keywords or flagging anything specific, just keeping records of everything they can for one year "just in case". In case what? The off chance that a group of terrorists would be stupid enough to actually say things online like "I have the components to make the bomb. Meet me at The Masons Arms pub (in central London) so we can go over the details of our bombing of Parliament". Even your average thief or con man knows better than to mention directly any crimes or anything illegal. Even if they were to communicate they may just say "let's meet at the pub for drinks later before we go out", not mention anything that these records would help find.

Further, how long do you think it would take to go through all this data since there are over 60 million people in the UK? By the time you found anything in this data, whatever was planned will have already happened so it will have served no purpose.