If you follow the link to the BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7671046.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7671046.stm It looks like

If you follow the link to the BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7671046.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7671046.stm It looks like they aren't recording the content of the messages, just times and dates etc. The worrying is that they are already doing it, and the proposal is to extend the duration the data can be kept for, and to make it centrally searchable (paragraphs 5 and 7).