Communications Capabilities Development Programme

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/uk-government-to-demand-data-on-every-call-and-email-61583|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, email and 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 platforms such as Twitter and 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 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,{{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 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}}