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Social network sites 'monitored'Social networking sites like Facebook could be monitored by the UK government under proposals to make them keep details of users' contacts. The Home Office said it was needed to tackle crime gangs and terrorists who might use the sites, but said it would not keep the content of conversations. Civil liberties campaigners have called the proposal a "snoopers' charter". The idea follows proposals to store details of every phone call, email, and internet visit made in the UK. Tens of millions of people use sites like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace to chat with friends, but ministers say they have no interest in the content of discussions - just who people have been talking to.Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake said the websites contained sensitive personal details and that he was concerned information could leak from any government-controlled database. The Independent newspaper quoted him as saying similiar plans to monitor phone and email records threatened to be the "most expensive snooper's charter in history". "It is deeply worrying that they now intend to monitor social networking sites which contain very sensitive data like sexual orientation, religious beliefs and political views," he said. The newspaper also reported that Chris Kelly, Facebook's chief privacy officer, was considering lobbying ministers over the proposal, which he described as "overkill".http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7962631.stm

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from now on strictly face to face meets no online or phone convo about sh*t.
I got one shabby code that involves picture messaging and clocks, you want me to bring you in?
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read in the metro they will use it to catch benifit fraudsters also
:lol: @ certain road guys & chicks. Making grands daily/weekly but still claiming.
LOL so true.How can I be driving past a job centre (or whatever they are) and see a well known _____ getting out of a 07 plate _____ to go and collect £70
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