UK Government Drops Plans For Web, Phone and Email Monitoring

Our Comments

The government is probably giving up on this mother of all databases almost certainly because of the price. £2 billion is a steep price to start up with and with most public IT projects, this one is likely to cost much more (probably around £5 billion) and take twice the amount of time budgeted to be completed. And in the current economic condition, this is certainly not something they need. Maybe they should buy Phorm.

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