State of Surveillance

I am going to start a running log of all Orwellian surveillance news called the "State of Surveillance." Not surprisingly most of the news in this log will probably be coming out of the UK. This first article on black boxes that will monitor and record all internet traffic.

Under Government plans to monitor internet traffic, raw data would be collected and stored by the black boxes before being transferred to a giant central database.

This Slashdot entry says that it would monitor all upstream traffic only.