UK Government Plans to Monitor Social Networks, Chatrooms, and Online Games

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From Popular Science:

UK netizens may find their online activities under ever-greater scrutiny in the near future. The UK government has pushed ahead with a proposal to require monitoring of Internet usage, including social networks such as Facebook and conversations within online games.

The new UK law would require communication firms to hold records of who contacted whom, rather than the actual contents of online conversation. About £2 billion ($3.34 billion) would go toward compensating the firms for the technical challenge of collecting the data.

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My Comment: They do not say it .... but the UK will also be monitoring internet traffic outside the UK. Any bets that this information will be shared with other countries .... the U.S. included.