'Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has ditched plans for a giant [b][i]Government[/i][/b] database [u]tracking all emails, phone calls and internet activity[/u]. Ms Smith said a central store of electronic data was an "extreme" solution and would have undermined privacy.[b]Records of every electronic communication made by Britons [u]will instead be held by private companies[/u] at a cost of around £2 billion.Internet firms will be asked to collect and store vast amounts of data, including from social networking sites such as Facebook[/b].Launching the proposals, Ms Smith acknowledged concerns over privacy....':-oRead more - [url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090427/tuk-climbdown-over-email-database-plan-6323e80.html]Climbdown over email database plan[/url]How much of a 'climbdown' is this?