The government is to propose next month that management of its huge Communications Bill database, which would contain logs of everybody’s telephone calls, emails and website accesses (not the content though), be tendered out to a private company.

Putting such data in the hands of a private company seems to be bordering on the insane, though many would probably suggest that putting it in the hands of the government is equally ludicrous. They do after all have a habit of losing our data:


Speaking personally, those whom are not under suspicion of a crime should not be having any such information logged or store; it is clearly a gross violation of an individual’s right to privacy. Once started down this road the slopes can become very slippery indeed.