"Intercept Modernisation" is, in short, the government's plan to monitor every source of electronic communication by you. It was initially to cover phone calls, text messages, emails, and internet habits in an effort to identify "terrorists" and has now been extended to cover myspace/bebo/facebook friends, messages, groups and comments.

It's not just horrendously intrusive, but depending on its implementation, it will likely join the 25% of government databases that are ILLEGAL due to their incompatibility with our adopted Human Rights laws.

What's worse, is that lobbyists are being outright ignored by the government - several groups (none of which I have any knowledge about) have brought all of this information to the government's attention to no avail. The cost of implementing these illegal measures are "the most expensive [invasion of privacy] in history" according to the Liberal Democrats. Who pays for it? Us and our parents, of course.

On the bright side, at least Intercept Modernisation is ripe with opportunity for the UK government's incompetence and irresponsible misuse of power to be chucked all over the papers when they lose/leak all of our social networking information via a misplaced CD or USB stick.