Mastering the Internet
Two British newspapers, The Sunday Times and The Recorder ran stories on 3 May that the British Government had spend one billion pounds in a hitherto secret project to monitor all e-mails, website visits and social networking sessions, as well as telephone calls over the internet, landlines and mobiles. The project called MTI (Mastering the Internet) would use thousands of “black boxes” covertly installed within the Internet’s infrastructure.
This news disturbed groups concerned with privacy. In turn, the Home Secretary announced that 2 billion pounds of public money would be spent to enable telephone and internet companies to retain information in separate data bases. She also claimed that plans for the centralized monitoring system would be dumped.
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