Government looks to ISPs as it cuts comms database plan

The government is set to require all telcos to record data between communications ¡V mobile phones, text message, emails and instant messages, as well as internet browsing sessions to social networking sites such as Facebook.

The details of the Intercept Modernisation Programme were laid out in a consultation document released today. The government will be accepting advice on the plans until July 2009.

Any firm considered a communications service provider (CSP) ¡V such as internet service providers (ISPS) and mobile operators ¡V would be required to hold onto such data in case the government needed it, for anti-terror or policing reasons, for example. Such CSPs will also be required to collect data from services that are based overseas but use UK networks.

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