The launch last night of a magisterial new “ethnographic study” of government in the age of the internet, by government’s data sharing tsar Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom. In his speech at the Institute for Government, Sir Bonar revealed details of the government’s new Intercept Modernisation Programme app:

“Intercept Modernisation merely restores in a digital age the ability Government has always had to read the addresses of people’s envelopes and to record which numbers they dial. In a digital world this also means recording the web sites people visit and the email addresses people use. This is merely common sense. We shall ensure the programme is both cost-effective and too big to fail.”

See http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/nov/24/society-daily-email?CMP=twt_gu