Mastering the Internet

Mastering the Internet

"Mastering the Internet" is reportedly a massive UK government mass surveillance project led by the British communications intelligence agency GCHQ, with a budget of over £1 billion. According to reports in The Register and the Sunday Times, as of early May 2009, contracts with a total value of £200m had already been awarded to suppliers.[1] [2]

Responding to these reports, GCHQ issued a press release countering these claims of mass surveillance, stating that "GCHQ is not developing technology to enable the monitoring of all internet use and phone calls in Britain, or to target everyone in the UK".[3] This, therefore, does not refute the possibility that they are intending to monitor almost all internet use or target almost everyone in the UK.

See also

  • Interception Modernisation Programme

References

  1. ^ David Leppard and Chris Williams (May 3, 2009). "Jacqui Smith's secret plan to carry on snooping". The Sunday Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6211101.ece. Retrieved 2009-05-03. 
  2. ^ Chris Williams (3rd May 2009). "Jacqui's secret plan to 'Master the Internet'". The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/03/gchq_mti/. Retrieved 2009-05-03. 
  3. ^ "Government 'not planning to monitor all web use'". Daily Telegraph. 04 May 2009. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5271796/Government-not-planning-to-monitor-all-web-use.html. Retrieved 2009-05-04. 
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