Brits Launch Online Spy Network

privacy       2000-05-03 
few weeks back, Russia's secret service agency raised privacy watchdogs' hackles when it admitted it could intercept and monitor all Russian Internet traffic. On Sunday the British government acknowledged that it was building a system that could do the same thing in Great Britain, ostensibly to help catch money launderers, terrorists, pedophiles, and other criminals who do business online.
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