It appears as part of the strategic review that the Coalition government is going to revive the plans to monitor all email, phone and website traffic and store said data for up to a year, for "security purposes".
Effectively allowing the police and security services the ability to spy on all electronic communication in Britain. The question has yet to be raised under what circumstances the forces will be allowed to access the data. Whether freely or if they require a court order, but it raises some very worrying prospects for the future.
Reading through it looks as though the data will be stored by the service provides and will only include the contact details, but not the actual conversations or messages contained within.
Even so, it's still a concern.
More here on the march to 1984.