Today in Parliament

[Ian Batten]

On 17 Jul 08, at 1619, Lord West of Spithead wrote:

> A lot of
> information is available to the internet service providers through
> headers, URLs and so on.

If my ISP knows the URL that I am accessing, then that means they are  
intercepting my TCP stream on port 80.   I thought that was illegal,  
other than for the purposes of running a transparent proxy (which  
fewer and fewer people are doing these days).  If they're recording  
and acting on that information, then that's quite clearly personally  
identifiable data, probably sensitive ditto, and they should have a  
damned good reason for doing it.

ian