Well, as long as a person is not having 'evil' intentions (like bombing some tower or train), and so long as a person is willing to share loads of his/her information across several websites ... for ex., facebook, how does it matter when some one tries to find interweb usage pattern? 
Unless the company (BT for ex) finds a way to charge a customer more when he visits his favourite websites!

I'd say with 2 years worth of web data you'd make a fair stab at identifying each user... the idea it collects no PII is nonsense.

For example you'd very quickly work out who I am from forum posts, flickr usage etc

I heard about this but didn't realise there was a petition. I've signed it now and I urge anyone who realises the implications of this to sign up too and continue to educate those close to you on what this is just the start of.

Education is the key here and the more aware the general public becomes then it only improves the case for getting stuff like this stopped before the snowball has become unstoppable.

I commend anyone who is prepared to stand up for their privacy rights in court. Hopefully, a precident will quash this outrageous case of breaching privacy in the name of massive advertising revenues through blatant, unauthorised monitoring of people's internet activity.

Sign the e-petition here:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ispphorm/

Regards
Alan

I'm horrified to say that my ISP, Virgin Media, is planning to try the same thing.

Sign the petition on the House of Commons website.


are we really suprised at this?