According to today’s Guardian, the private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone’s calls, emails, texts and internet use. This latest step towards a full surveillance state will be revealed in a consultation paper to be published next month by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.

The article hints at a £12bn cost with the private sector involvement being a potential cost-saver. A cost-saver! What price the security of our personal and private data? Keeping a database of this magnitude safe and secure would be an enormous and in my opinion, impossible task - far outweighing any imaginable benefits - and they are sketchy to say the least.

Who wants to live in a country where a private firm and the Government will know that I rang my Mum at 11am on New Years Eve. What business is this of Government? ABSOLUTELY NONE.

AT ALL.

Talking to the Guardian, Sir Ken Macdonald (former director of public prosecutions) warned it would prove a “hellhouse” of personal private information:

 ”It would be a complete readout of every citizen’s life in the most intimate and demeaning detail. No government of any colour is to be trusted with such a roadmap to our souls.”