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Re:Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, in... by Insanity on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:17AM (#13036845)
From the article: "Those ICRs in effect serve as a full list of every website that people have visited, rather than collecting which specific pages are visited or what's done on them."

And from another site on the same issue: "When you visit a website you usually start at the websites homepage such as www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/ the Government define this part of a website address (the part before the first forward slash) as communications data which they consider to be non-intrusive information." (https://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/0...)

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Re:Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, in... by noir_lord on Friday November 25, 2016 @12:13PM (#13038182)
In fairness the law mandates they record the domain, it doesn't say anything about capturing more it just sets a standard for the minimum.

Given that the ISP's have now been given cart blanche to collect data that is very commercially valuable I can see some of them doing it with the hope they can sell it later.

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