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Slightly related question, does anyone know if these laws are backdated. I.e a year's worth of data retention is that available to the list of access from now? As in have ISP already been collecting?

Has the data collection started? Is it about to start?

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'Has the data collection started?'

I think we can assume it's been going on for years already.

> Has the data collection started? Is it about to start?

At the behest of this Act? No, not yet. It has yet to be determined and ordered how "Internet Connection Records" will be collected and stored; perhaps this will occur at backhauls and exchange levels, rather than at the terminating ISP level. Much easier to implement and for the 'authorities' to query.

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