Britain’s plan to monitor emails will not work, says LSE

The Home Office’s revised proposals to monitor all text messages, email and ­internet use will have poor safeguards, prove very costly and not even work, London School of Economics researchers have found.Their study says the department’s plans to boost the capability of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to analyse the internet activities of all British citizens will work only if new laws are passed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jun/16/home-office-monitor-uk-internet-use