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UK: Register - Exclusive: The Home Office has privately conceded that its plan to store details of every internet communication may be impossible, and that the project is based on technology not yet developed

01 June 2009

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Whitehall admits gamble on massive net snoop plan: Exclusive The Home Office has privately conceded that its plan to store details of every internet communication may not be possible - and that it has pinned the multibillion pound project's hopes on snooping technology not yet developed (Register, link)

Background: LSE report: Briefing on the Interception Modernisation Programme (pdf)

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