http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7409593.stm

Ministers are to consider plans for a database of electronic information holding details of every phone call and e-mail sent in the UK, it has emerged..... A Home Office spokesman said the data was a "crucial tool" for protecting national security and preventing crime.

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Whats crucial now is that this Government is given a big kick in the for even suggesting something so Orwellian. All in the name of National Security? Nope!

There is a line from a song by Radiohead "No Surprises" - "Bring Down the Government, They Don't Speak for Us".