UK phone calls will be logged for a year

Information about every call from the UK's mobile phones and landlines will have to be logged by operators for one year under an extension to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, reports vnu.net.

In line with Europe's Data Retention Directive, the UK is once again ratifying in law security measures which have the pardoxical quality of being both useless while giving a dangerous amount of power to the state.