Big Brother is watching you!

12.00.00am GMT Sat 28th Feb 2009

The Lib Dems have hit out at Labour's plans for a database of citizens' e-mails.

Local Liberal Democrats have hit out at government plans for a database of e-mail and phone records.

From March, all internet service providers will be forced by law to keep information about every e-mail sent or received in the UK for twelve months.

The Liberal Democrats have argued that the measures represent a further step towards ordinary citizens being treated like criminal suspects.

Lib Dem Parliamentary Spokesman for Cardiff North, John Dixon, said: "With three billion e-mails sent every year, it will be impossible for these measures to make any difference to national security. The only effects will be to further chip away at the rights of British citizens to privacy."

For more information on what the Liberal Democrats would do to tackle Labour's erosion of our civil liberties, visit http://www.libdems.org.uk/home/tag/civilliberties