Whitehall plans to order ISPs and mobile operators to gather massive quantities of data on every customer's internet use are vague, misleading, risky and possibly unnecessary, according to the Information Commissioner.Source: The RegisterIn forthright comments on the Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP), Christopher Graham said the Home Office's proposals represented "a step change in the relationship between the citizen and the state". "Prior to this, police and intelligence services would have access to information which was already collected and held... for the first time this proposal is asking [communication service providers] to collect and create information they would not have previously held."
