What they ' re asking for isn ' t even technically feasible . If you want to see why , open up the network log in your web browser ' s developer tools , and then go load a few web pages . As an example , I just loaded , and my browser made 296 requests . Are they really proposing to store hundreds of entries for every page that millions of people visit ? For a year ? ? That ' s ludicrous . The closest thing ISPs have to an Internet Connection R e c o r d i s h o w p o l i c e w a n t y o u r i n t e rnetconnectionrecordslook 3641581 is a technology called that records IP addresses and ports , but even that can ' t store everything . ISPs use sampling , meaning that the router only sends 1 out of every 1000 or even 10000 flows . And if they ' re stored at all , it ' s only for a few days . Damn sure not a year .