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Jackboot Jacqui is at it again: The government Interception Modernisation Programme (gIMP), a plan by spy chiefs to centrally collect details of every phone call, text, email and web browsing session of every UK resident, will be in place by 2012, according to a Home Office minister.Apparently:

Jacqui Smith has set out plans to give the police and security services more powers to gather phone and e-mail data.But wait: "I want this to be combined with a well-informed debate characterised by openness, rather than mere opinion, by reason and reasonableness," she told the IPPR. Well, that's alright, then. Except: "What we will be proposing will be options which follow the key principles which govern all our work in this area - the principles of proportionality and necessity." What, like ID cards, you mean? Note, too, that when she says this: