According to the British Home Office security minister, Vernon Coaker, the EUs Data Retention Directive, allowing the respective countries to store logs of people's internet traffic, e-mailheaders, telephone calls and text messages, does not go far enough.
One thing the UK government now is considering is also monitoring and storing all user communication on social-networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo.
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