The Government’s proposals to increase the monitoring of digital communications and the data held about all of our web activity is certainly cause for concern and deserves a good level of scrutiny. At the moment there aren’t any firm details of what they are proposing. We heard earlier in the week that they want to collect details of browsing activity and email communications. But there weren’t any technical details released that outline what data they want retained or who will be responsible for it. It appears that the proposals are to collect “header data”. I.e who or what you are communicating with and not to hold the actual content. The argument being that the information is already available for phone calls so it should be for Internet activities. All in the name of keeping the terrorists at bay. Besides from the creeping privacy concerns there are serious questions that need to be answered about how the data is going to be maintained and whether collecting it will actually achieve its aim. I don’t know about you but I send far more emails and browse far more websites than I make calls in a day. Presumably it is going to fall Read More