From Casey's Daily Dispatch:

Update on the 1984 Olympics. Once again, the UK is demonstrating its prowess in the race to become the nation most like that envisioned in native son George Orwell's book 1984.

It has done so by adopting regulations that require UK telecommunications and Internet companies to record and store for a year every phone call, email, and Internet click. And, of course, provide access to said data to governmental entities - in this case some 653 different government bodies.

No court order is required in order for your local bureaucrats to paw through your data; a nod from “a senior police officer or the equivalent of a deputy head of department at a local authority” will do.

Here’s the story.

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