Anyone unwise enough to give their login and password would make their past and future e-mails, and contacts, available to the snooper.

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The deputy prime minister told his weekly LBC radio phone-in that "what people have dubbed the snooper's charter" was "not going to happen".

BBC: A person using a computer

One cyber snooper questioned for the survey said finding out what a former boyfriend was up to "became quite addictive after a while".

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