U.K. considers broad national surveillance plan  A surveillance
camera is pictured near King's Cross in London. British citizens
are used to being watched by their government, but is it being
pushed too far?  Stacey Vanek Smith: Privacy advocates today
protested a plan to massively extend eavesdropping powers of the
British government. It wants to monitor all phone calls, emails
and web traffic in the U.K. to keep up with hackers and other
criminals.  From London, Marketplace's Stephen Beard reports.
Stephen Beard: The British government can already find out who
its citizens are contacting electronically. But they have to
seek permission from a court. The planned new law would do away
with that requirement. Critics say it would make it easier for
the government to engage in mass eavesdropping.  Telecom and
internet companies would have to record the destination, and
time of very phone call, email, text message and website visit
from the U.K. They would have to keep those records for two
years. And make them