Re: from IP: Sunday Times (London) 30th April: "MI5 builds new centre to read e-mails on the net"

[Trei Family]

Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> Forwarded from "Interesting People"
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> >
> >MI5 is building a new =A325m e-mail surveillance centre that will have the
> >power to monitor all e-mails and internet messages sent and received in
> >Britain. The government is to require internet service providers, such as
> >Freeserve and AOL, to have "hardwire" links to the new computer facility so
> >that messages can be traced across the internet.

Isn't this identical to Russian policy?

Peter Trei