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Spy fear over e-mail check plan

From the BBC:

Plans to give local councils and other public bodies the power to monitor e-mail and internet traffic have been branded a "snoopers' charter".

The government wants to make it mandatory for phone and internet companies to store all information on personal web use for 12 months.