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Friendly reminder that all ISPs in the UK are required to store your entire browsing history for a full year, and 17 government agencies, including the Department of Agriculture, can access it without a warrant. Snoopers Act has been passed and lives on for years now, and I'm yet to meet a person who is even slightly bothered by it.

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Except that’s not right

https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/06/must-all-uk-internet-acce...

> Don’t all ISPs have retention notices? Probably not (for the reasons above), but this is not public information, and ISPs and others subject to retention notices face statutory prohibitions on disclosure.

> If all Internet access providers were subject to retention notices, wouldn’t it be easier to say that? There would be no need to dance around issues of secrecy, or explain why the list of notice recipients cannot be published. The fact that the Home Office chooses to take this approach undermines the claim that all providers have notices.

This source appears to be engaging in wishful thinking.

The people at my isp insist they don’t store anything other than bandwidth use (which is exposed to me so I know that already)

I don’t keep much data at work for that long

If it is a thing it’s either a massive conspiracy across thousands of network engineers or you could point to some technical details on how it’s implemented.

It's not a conspiracy, they just can't say by law. Did you expect them to tell you if they have an order from the Home Office telling them to not divuldge this information under the threat of massive fines and jail time?

Thousands of people, including a few friends and dozens of acquaintances, including those who have retired, emigrated, and changed citizenship, are all successfully keeping silent about this.

That’s by definition a conspiracy

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