> In the UK residential ISPs are required by law to store logs of your browsing data, and to make it available to ~50 government departments with no warrant or any other kind of oversight required.

Super scary. It would be cool if someone currently working at one of those 50+ government agencies would make an AMA, maybe using a throwaway account.

It would be scary if it was true, but it isn't true, it's scare-mongering bollocks.

The sad reality of human nature is that if you give some people a power, sooner or later one will abuse it. I can’t think of a counter example.

I feel like this would be a bad idea seeing as their employers are in the business of watching your internet traffic and catching such shenanigans.

That's a dishonest misrepresentation of the law, and your link says so.

Could you be more specific as to where the poster is going wrong? Is it merely a correction that it's the domains stored and not the individual pages? (not that that's possible over SSL anyway). Or is there more to what you say has been misrepresented?

Definitely. Wikipedia says :

"required communication service providers (CSPs) to retain UK internet users' "Internet connection records" – which websites were visited but not the particular pages and not the full browsing history – for one year;[41]"

Which part do you believe I have misrepresented?