With the aim to form a database to observe and store internet browsing, emails and phone calls of very Briton, a whopping sum of £12 billion would be spent by the UK government. 

A well known newspaper of London reported on Sunday that the communication headquarters (GCHQ) of the government has already been allocated one billion pounds in order to finance the first stage of the project, which is being formed with the aim to fight terrorism and rising crime. 

Though the Home Office maintained that no formal decision had been taken, it was confirmed by the sources that there has been a general agreement on the program. British Telephone (BT) and Vodafone are the UK’s largest internet and mobile phone providers, with BT having almost five million internet customers and the internet browsing, emails and telephone calls of these service providers would be kept under scrutiny through installing of hundreds of secret probes. 

However, the critics are worried with the extent of spying. The job may prove to be really hectic as last year nearly 57 billion text messages were sent in the country, and at this speed, nearly 1,800 texts will need to be monitored by the officials, every second. 

“Any suggestion of the government using existing powers to intercept communications data without public discussion is going to sound extremely sinister,” reported Dominic Grieve, Shadow home secretary. 

The information related to this plan will be put forward in the queen’s speech to be broadcasted next month.