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by asksol 3668 days ago
The title seem to suggest this has something to do with browser histories, but as far as I can tell from reading the article it's much worse: they want your ISP to keep a log of the web sites/other services you are using, and they want to get this log by simple request to your ISP (no VSL, subpoena, or warrant).

So restoring this option wouldn't help, maybe only using TOR or some VPN proxy would.

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And if you use Tor, keep an eye on the drama that is going in that project now.
Can you explain?
Jacob Applebaum, one of Tor's developers, left recently under a cloud [1]. I've seen a statement by Mr. Applebaum that Tor operations will not be affected as a result of his departure.

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/statement

Eew. The only reason telephone service provides similar records is because it was necessary for billing by the minute with different rates for different regions. But the Internet doesn't require any of that, so we certainly shouldn't have ISPs logging all of our traffic, let alone turning records over without a warrant.