Summary British intelligence agencies are planning to install an unspecified number of spy devices.
LONDON: British intelligence agencies are planning to install an unspecified number of spy devices along Britain s telecommunications network so they can monitor Britons interactions with overseas services such as Facebook and Twitter, according to lawmakers.
The devices are intended as a lynchpin of a nationwide surveillance plan intended to log nearly everything Britons do online from Skype calls to instant messages to visits to pornographic websites.
Some new details have been unveiled in a parliamentary report published Tuesday.
The report says the devices would rely on "Deep Packet Inspection," so-called because it allows those intercepting the data to comb through its content.
Authorities say the government aims to gather information about the data s sender, its recipients, and time and location information associated with both.
