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Email and web snooping plans draw back-bench fire

...proposals are very similar to those contained in the Labour government's Intercept Modernisation Programme, against which both the Tories and the Liberal Democrats argued... Read more

2 April, 2012

Book review: Surveillance or Security?

Over the last 20 years or so, there have been intermittent moves by the EU and the UK government to implement various... Read more

22 June, 2011

Photos: ID cards database shredded and burnt

...internet and email messages - even though a similar programme under Labour, the Intercept Modernisation Programme, was criticised by the now UK security minister Baroness Pauline... Read more

11 February, 2011 by Nick Heath

Tories outline plans to review comms database

A Conservative government would review the Intercept Modernisation Programme, according to the party's green paper on national security... Read more

18 January, 2010 by Kable

Facebook attacks gov't web-monitoring plans

...social-networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo, as part of its Intercept Modernisation Programme (IMP). The IMP, a proposed overhaul of intelligence service systems... Read more

24 March, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Report: Some gov't databases almost certainly illegal

...report. These include the National Identity Register, the communications database behind the Intercept Modernisation Programme, and the National DNA Database. The National Identity Register — the... Read more

23 March, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Gov't may track all UK Facebook traffic

...why the government are looking at what we should do about the Intercept Modernisation Programme, because there are certain aspects of communications which are not... Read more

18 March, 2009 by Tom Espiner

GCHQ denies developing mass surveillance tech

Security experts point out that while GCHQ denied intercepting and recording content, it avoided saying anything about traffic data Read more

5 May, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Liberal-Conservative coalition: What UK's new government means for tech

...Intercept Modernisation Programme (IMP), which aimed to enable law enforcement and security services... Read more

12 May, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Tories and Lib Dems form coalition government

...they would scrap the ID cards scheme and the ContactPoint database. The Intercept Modernisation Programme, a Labour plan to intercept and record people's communications... Read more

12 May, 2010 by David Meyer
Berners-Lee says no to internet 'snooping'

Berners-Lee says no to internet 'snooping'

...adverts at those users. In addition, UK government initiatives such as the Intercept Modernisation Programme have proposed using deep packet inspection to perform mass surveillance... Read more

11 March, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Lib Dem manifesto launch: All the tech pledges unveiled

...projects of the previous Labour government, such as ID cards and the Intercept Modernisation Programme, in order to save billions of pounds of public money... Read more

15 April, 2010 by Nick Heath

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