Statement A: The UK government are not planning to build a massive surveillance network to capture the traffic data of all internet users:
“GCHQ is not developing technology to enable the monitoring of all internet use and phone calls in Britain, or to target everyone in the UK,” the statement said. “Similarly, GCHQ has no ambitions, expectations or plans for a database or databases to store centrally all communications data in Britain.”
Statement A, revised: The UK government are not planning to build a massive surveillance network to capture the traffic data of all internet users.
Just not all of them simultaneously.
Or so they tell us. I feel so reassured :S