UK set to defy EU by requiring collection of phone and browsing records

The UK government is set to pass emergency NSA-style measures requiring telecom companies to retain records of all web activity and phone calls in Britain for up to two years. That's happening over fears of radicalization of UK Muslims, heading in waves to the Middle East to fight in Syria and Iraq. Such tracking, which started back in 2006 under the "Data Retention Directive," was declared illegal in April by the European Court of Justice.

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