Social:Communications Capabilities Development Programme
The Communications Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP) is a UK government initiative to extend the government's capabilities for lawful interception and storage of communications data.[1] It would involve the logging of every telephone call, email and text message between every inhabitant of the UK,[2][3] (but would not record the actual content of these emails)[3] and is intended to extend beyond the realms of conventional telecommunications media to log communications within social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.[4]
It is an initiative of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism at the Home Office, whose Director is Tom Hurd. The office pursued a very similar initiative under the last Labour government, called the Interception Modernisation Programme,[2][5] which after apparently being cancelled, was revived by the Liberal-Conservative coalition government in their 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review.[6]
The effort to develop it will be led by a new government organisation, the Communications Capabilities Directorate.[7][4] In March 2010, it was reported that the Communications Capabilities Directorate had spent over £14m in a single month on set-up costs.[8]
See also
- Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001#Part 11 (Retention of communications data)
- Communications Data Bill 2008
- Data retention
- Internet censorship in the United Kingdom
- Mass surveillance in the United Kingdom
- Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
- Telecommunications data retention#United Kingdom
References
- ↑ Steve McCaskill (20 February 2012). "UK Government To Demand Data On Every Call And Email". TechWeek Europe. http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/uk-government-to-demand-data-on-every-call-and-email-61583.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Stewart Mitchell (20 February 2012). "Anger over mass web surveillance plans". PC Pro. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/372985/anger-over-mass-web-surveillance-plans.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 David Barrett (18 February 2012). "Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan". Daily Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/9090617/Phone-and-email-records-to-be-stored-in-new-spy-plan.html.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Tom Espiner (20 February 2012). "ISPs kept in dark about UK's plans to intercept Twitter". ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2012/02/20/isps-kept-in-dark-about-uks-plans-to-intercept-twitter-40095083/.
- ↑ John Oates (13 July 2011). "Coalition renames GCHQ internet spook-tech plans". The Register. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/13/interception_modernisation_returns/.
- ↑ Alan Deane (20 October 2010). "A U-turn on reversing the surveillance state". New Statesman. http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/10/programme-intercept-government.
- ↑ Tom Espiner (29 January 2010). "Home Office presses ahead with web interception". ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2010/01/29/home-office-presses-ahead-with-web-interception-40012777/.
- ↑ Tom Espiner (5 March 2010). "Web intercept group has spent £14m since January". ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2010/03/05/web-intercept-group-has-spent-14m-since-january-40072979/.
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