"Better Watch Out"

From 6th April, eu directive 2006/24/EC means that the government will be monitoring every e-mail you send, every friend you make on the ubiquitous Facebook, every mobile phone call you make, every time you log onto this or any other web page.
Does this mean that if I use the word "terror" or "photograph" in an e-mail I shall be investigated?

No, if you want to put something really evil in your emails. try:- Bin lid up, fly tipping, dropped elastic band, wee'd in the bushes, said ...gollywog (Sorry), etc.

Now.....if someone from the local council called at your house every few weeks and said "I'm from the local council and I would like to come in and make a note of what books and magazines you have in your house so that we can keep an eye on what you are reading" perhaps only then would folk take notice of what is happening?
The logging of *all* internet activity is actually worse than that in terms of invasion of privacy.

April 1st is still 3 weeks away!

Leicestershire County Council have spent £6000 fitting satellite navigation devices to 14 of their Lawn Mowers because gardeners claimed they kept getting lost in long grass. The council said the satellite navigation technology will help combat an 'unprecedented amount of growth' on its verges and playing fields. 

Susie Squire of the TaxPayers' Alliance said: 'At a time when ordinary people are struggling to put food on the table, frittering away public money on this sort of nonsense shows just how out of touch this council have become. 

Leicestershire resident Brian Rayner, vice-president of the national society of allotment and leisure gardeners, said: 'It's bonkers, it beggars belief. Why spend all this money on these gadgets when you can see the grass grow with your own eyes? 

'All it takes is for someone to look out of the window and they can see if grass needs cutting, you don't need a satnav to tell you that.