# Communications Capabilities Development Programme > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Communications_Capabilities_Development_Programme > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Communications_Capabilities_Development_Programme.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Capabilities_Development_Programme > Source revision: 1332640230 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} The '''Communications Capabilities Development Programme''' ('''CCDP''') is a [UK government](/source/UK_government) initiative to extend the government's capabilities for [lawful interception](/source/lawful_interception) and storage of [communications data](/source/communications_data).{{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}} It would involve the logging of every [telephone call](/source/telephone_call), [email](/source/email) and [text message](/source/text_message) between every inhabitant of the UK,{{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}}{{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}} (but would not record the actual content of these emails) and is intended to extend beyond the realms of conventional telecommunications media to log communications within [social networking](/source/social_networking) platforms such as [Twitter](/source/Twitter) and [Facebook](/source/Facebook).{{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}} It is an initiative of the [Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism](/source/Office_for_Security_and_Counter-Terrorism) at the [Home Office](/source/Home_Office), whose Director is Tom Hurd. The office pursued a very similar initiative under the last Labour government, called the [Interception Modernisation Programme](/source/Interception_Modernisation_Programme),{{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}} which after apparently being cancelled, was revived by the [Liberal-Conservative coalition government](/source/Cameron%E2%80%93Clegg_coalition) in their 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review.{{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}} The effort to develop it will be led by a new government organisation, the '''Communications Capabilities Directorate'''.{{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}} In March 2010, it was reported that the Communications Capabilities Directorate had spent over £14m in a single month on set-up costs.{{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}} == See also == * [Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001#Part 11 (Retention of communications data)](/source/Anti-terrorism%2C_Crime_and_Security_Act_2001) * [Communications Data Bill 2008](/source/Communications_Data_Bill_2008) * [Data retention](/source/Data_retention) * [Internet censorship in the United Kingdom](/source/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom) * [Mass surveillance in the United Kingdom](/source/Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_Kingdom) * [Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000](/source/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Powers_Act_2000) * [Telecommunications data retention#United Kingdom](/source/Telecommunications_data_retention) == References == {{reflist|30em}} == 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] Category:Surveillance Category:Civil rights and liberties in the United Kingdom Category:Mass intelligence-gathering systems Category:Surveillance databases Category:Government databases in the United Kingdom Category:Home Office (United Kingdom) Category:GCHQ {{UK-gov-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Communications Capabilities Development Programme](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Capabilities_Development_Programme) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Capabilities_Development_Programme?action=history)). 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