The UK government plans to store information about every telephone call, email, and internet visit made by anyone in the UK on a central database.

Details were disclosed by Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker earlier this month at a Commons committee to examine draft EU directives.

Not only that, their new plan....

Millions of Britons who use social networking websites such as Facebook could have details of everyone they correspond with monitored by the Government.

Under the proposals, the Home Office is considering making the sites keep data about their users' movements.

These details may then be saved on a "Big Brother" database.

The Home Office said the idea was to tackle criminals and terrorists who might use the websites to communicate.

He said the Government was considering acting on social networking sites because they were not covered by the latest proposals from Brussels.

"Social networking sites, such as MySpace or Bebo, are not covered by the directive," he said.

"That is one reason why the Government are looking at what we should do about the intercept modernisation programme because there are certain aspects of communications which are not covered by the directive."

ALL IN THE NAME OF SAVING US FROM TERRORISM

Like we haven't heard that shit before? Thanks very much. Oh wait, they are monitoring every internet visit, so they are probably reading this post right now. Great.