It is an overreaction because this has been going on for years and years already with phones . Mobiles have already been subject to this for ages and yet no one has uttered a peep . This law only brings Home internet in line with Mobile internet and now all of a sudden it is an outrage . If you ever thought you had privacy online you were a complete idiot . You have never had and never will have privacy online and any illusion you had that you did was just that an illusion . The UK government has listening stations next to every major internet trunk into and out of the UK and intercepts everything that goes through them . Other countries have similar capabilities . All websites maintain loge of your internet usage which the police could already access with a court order . All this bill does is make it easier for police to get at that information by doing it at the ISP level .