David Cameron Wants To Read Your Email

Monday, April 2, 2012 'Snooping' Law Will Give Spies 'Unfettered Access To People's Private Data' This morning HuffPostUK Politics is frantically deleting our search history and emptying our text message inboxes following news that the government plans to expand the powers of the security services to spy on everyone's private communications. Under legislation expected in next month's Queen's Speech, internet companies will be instructed to install hardware enabling GCHQ - the government's electronic "listening" agency - to examine "on demand" any phone call made, text message and email sent, and website accessed, in "real time" without a warrant. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday morning, the former Tory leadership candidate and shadow home secretary David Davis said the plans would enable spies to watch everything you did online. "It's a very very big widening of powers that will be very much resented by very many citizens," he said. We count ourselves among those who do not want David Cameron knowing just how much time we spend watching Rihanna music videos on YouTube each day. 'We Will Govern For Everyone': Miliband's Election Promise 'Britain Will Uphold The Rights Of The Falkland Islanders' 'Old Boys Network': Calls To Reform High Pay David Cameron Facing First Big Crisis Of His Leadership Clegg Launches '£1bn Youth Contract Scheme' For Youth Unemployment BLOG POSTS Robert Philpot: The Queen's Speech - Time for an Alternative Few events in the political calendar underline quite so graphically the power of the government and the impotence of the opposition as much as the Queen's speech. Backed by all the pomp and finery the British state can muster, the Gracious Address, to give it its proper title, affords the government the opportunity to draw a line under past difficulties, and turn a somewhat dry recitation of its legislative programme into a demonstration of its political priorities. The shadow cabinet should seize on this year's Queen's speech to provide its own 'shadow Queen's speech' as a way of demonstrating how Britain could be different under Labour. Jenny Jones AM: Guilty Pleasures: Can You Be Green and Still Get a Good Gag? On Wednesday 4 April the London Green Party will host its second comedy fundraiser at the Leicester Square Theatre, headlined by Alistair McGowan and Scott Capurro. It will raise money for the forthcoming London elections, when I'm running for Mayor. Paul Bassett Davies: NHS: The Punchline Please spare a thought for one group of vulnerable people who will be hit especially hard by the effects of the Health and Social Care bill that has just been hustled through parliament. Lonely, confused, and often delusional, these people are comedy writers. Rupert Wolfe-Murray: What's a Legal High? Legal Highs are cocktails of legal chemicals which imitate the effects of illegal narcotics. They are the new generation of party drugs. But they are very different to the illegal substances that everyone has heard of because they are constantly evolving. Sam Fraser: We Are Governed by Fuels - A Drama in a Jerrycan Why oh why didn't I panic buy? I watch Britain's Got Talent! I know who Gazza is! Hell, I may never have made a purchase from Greggs but I've eaten a pasty in my time!

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