Today in Parliament

[Roland Perry]

In article <0F1F58F4-B6AF-4FD2-841B-861F1CC83527@batten.eu.org>, Ian 
Batten <igb@batten.eu.org> writes
>> 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.

He said it was "available to", not that they actually captured it.

Although I feel obliged to comment that "making available to" is one of 
the famous phrases in RIPA, related to interception.
-- 
Roland Perry