UK e-mail law ‘attack on rights’
Received:: January 17, 2009 | Category:: intercept modernisation programme
WHAT IS BEING PROPOSED?
To keep details of every e-mail sent in the UK for a year
Internet Service Providers will have to record who sent the email, to whom and when
The e-mail’s content will not be stored
Data can be accessed by more than 600 public bodies, such as the police and councils, if they make a valid request
Part of a European Commission directive