{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} The '''Communications Capabilities Development Programme''' ('''CCDP''') is a UK government initiative to extend the government's capabilities for lawful interception and storage of communications data.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/uk-government-to-demand-data-on-every-call-and-email-61583|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222214426/http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/uk-government-to-demand-data-on-every-call-and-email-61583|url-status=usurped|archive-date=22 February 2012|title= UK Government To Demand Data On Every Call And Email|publisher=TechWeek Europe|author=Steve McCaskill|date=20 February 2012}}</ref> It would involve the logging of every telephone call, email and text message between every inhabitant of the UK,<ref name=mitchell-2012-02-20>{{cite web|url=http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/372985/anger-over-mass-web-surveillance-plans|title=Anger over mass web surveillance plans|author=Stewart Mitchell|publisher=PC Pro|date=20 February 2012|access-date=20 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218075303/http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/372985/anger-over-mass-web-surveillance-plans|archive-date=18 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="David Barrett">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/9090617/Phone-and-email-records-to-be-stored-in-new-spy-plan.html|title=Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan|publisher=Daily Telegraph|date=18 February 2012|author=David Barrett}}</ref> (but would not record the actual content of these emails)<ref name="David Barrett"/> and is intended to extend beyond the realms of conventional telecommunications media to log communications within social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.<ref name=espiner-2012-02-20>{{cite web|url=http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2012/02/20/isps-kept-in-dark-about-uks-plans-to-intercept-twitter-40095083/|title=ISPs kept in dark about UK's plans to intercept Twitter|author=Tom Espiner|date=20 February 2012|publisher=ZDNet}}</ref>
It is an initiative of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism at the Home Office, whose Director is Tom Hurd. The office pursued a very similar initiative under the last Labour government, called the Interception Modernisation Programme,<ref name=mitchell-2012-02-20/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/13/interception_modernisation_returns/|title=Coalition renames GCHQ internet spook-tech plans|author=John Oates|publisher=The Register|date=13 July 2011}}</ref> which after apparently being cancelled, was revived by the Liberal-Conservative coalition government in their 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/10/programme-intercept-government|title=A U-turn on reversing the surveillance state|author=Alan Deane|publisher=New Statesman|date=20 October 2010}}</ref>
The effort to develop it will be led by a new government organisation, the '''Communications Capabilities Directorate'''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2010/01/29/home-office-presses-ahead-with-web-interception-40012777/|title=Home Office presses ahead with web interception|date=29 January 2010|author=Tom Espiner|publisher=ZDNet}}</ref><ref name=espiner-2012-02-20/> In March 2010, it was reported that the Communications Capabilities Directorate had spent over £14m in a single month on set-up costs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2010/03/05/web-intercept-group-has-spent-14m-since-january-40072979/|title=Web intercept group has spent £14m since January|date=5 March 2010|author=Tom Espiner|publisher=ZDNet}}</ref>
== See also == * Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001#Part 11 (Retention of communications data) * Communications Data Bill 2008 * Data retention * Internet censorship in the United Kingdom * Mass surveillance in the United Kingdom * Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 * Telecommunications data retention#United Kingdom
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== External links == * [http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/counter-terrorism/communications-data/ Home Office page on the CCDP] * [https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Communications_Capabilities_Development_Programme Open Rights Group page on the CCDP]
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