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Re:Tech firms seek to frustrate internet history log law by ebbv on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @08:52AM (#13022601)
Some portion of people who choose to install a browser extension being traceable is worlds different from the government mandating that ISPs track all internet activity of all U.K. citizens.

That distinction should be plainly obvious.

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Re:Tech firms seek to frustrate internet history log law by wotstowaway on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @09:00AM (#13022655)
But most people don't know what happens to their data, and many don't even know that they're being tracked when the opt in to provide "anonymized usage statistics".

Of course it's a completely different if the government forces total surveillance, but the impact on people's privacy can be just as bad or even worse.

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Re:Tech firms seek to frustrate internet history log law by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @10:17AM (#13023172)
>mandating that ISPs track all internet activity //

Isn't it 'just' domains visited? I don't know if that's web or internet or what though.

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