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> Of course, if it turns out that anyone was actually affected by the legislation as it stands then that should be dealt with as a matter of urgency.

How do you decide whether "anyone was actually affected" by ISPs storing as much browsing data as they can? Doesn't that affect either everyone or noone depending on whether you think it matters? And if it matters, does it not affect everyone? What can you possibly do about that retroactively?

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If Shirley lost £1,000,000 and a body part as a result of the ISP’s actions, she’s affected more than somebody who’s merely annoyed and feels their human rights have been breached.

The point about surveilance is it doesn't effect anyone, until it does - and then everybody gets arrested in the night. We're just a couple of decades out of the twentieth century - and if the more bloody-handed of the last century's regimes had today's databases, they would have been far worse.

They could give everyone a year of free credit monitoring.

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