As proposed the system cannot work. Any half-clued up criminal already uses encrypted communications, now under UK law you must provide the government with your PGP key if asked.
However stealthily reading your emails to identify you as the next pilot of a badly parked 747 isn't going to be to stealthy when an MI6 agent knocks on your door asking for your PGP key.
Therefore, clearly, by design this system does not do what it sets out to do, so one must wonder what the real purpose is? Quite obviously, it's for data-mining: Knowledge is power.
In the history of all nations nothing good has ever come from a government seeking to extend the power that has been granted them. In this case I can see how analytics could be used to construct intelligent models of the mood of the nation, for instance to deliver palattable sound bites in the run up to election time.
However stealthily reading your emails to identify you as the next pilot of a badly parked 747 isn't going to be to stealthy when an MI6 agent knocks on your door asking for your PGP key.
Therefore, clearly, by design this system does not do what it sets out to do, so one must wonder what the real purpose is? Quite obviously, it's for data-mining: Knowledge is power.
In the history of all nations nothing good has ever come from a government seeking to extend the power that has been granted them. In this case I can see how analytics could be used to construct intelligent models of the mood of the nation, for instance to deliver palattable sound bites in the run up to election time.