Communications Capabilities Development Programme

Communications Capabilities Development Programme, short CCDP, is a from the Home Office ( UK Home Office ), the British domestic intelligence service MI5, the British foreign intelligence service MI6 and the Government Communications Headquarters ( GCHQ ) elaborated draft law on the establishment of a central monitoring database for the UK.

The British government wants to messages, phone calls, emails, visited websites, Facebook and Twitter activities and even monitor online game chat rooms. Subsequently, the data should be stored at least one year and made ​​available to the intelligence available. In the project there is a resumption of a previously failed because of high costs and the criticism from privacy advocates legislative proposal of the Labour government in April 2009.

Criticism

  • Nick Pickle, director of Big Brother Watch criticized CCDP: "Britain is now offline [ about by video cameras ] one of the most monitored countries in the world and the [ Act ] is now the shameful attempt just to watch everything we do online. "
  • Jim Killock, director of the Open Rights Group said: " No nation in history has been able to obtain information in the provided extent - is there a way to collect everything about which we speak, just in case that times could develop something of it. "
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