Spies should be able to monitor all online messaging, says David Cameron - Telegraph
The Security Services will be given the powers to read all messages sent over the internet, if the Conservatives win the general election.
David Cameron, the Prime Minister, made the pledge at a campaign event attended by up to 100 Conservative activists in Nottingham.
The police and the intelligence agencies have expressed concerns that they are not able to access the content of some of the new ways to communicate over the internet.
The Prime Minister - who on Monday morning chaired a meeting of the Security Services to discuss lessons that be learned from last week's terrorist attacks on Paris - said a Tory Government would pass a law in the next Parliament to ensure that the police and Security Services can read internet messages.
The problem at the moment was that new ways of communicating over the internet were impossible for the agencies to keep track of, he said.
