Two UK internet providers have been helping the Home Office and National Crime Agency track the websites visited by customers.
A trial of new powers granted by the controversial Investigatory Powers Act of 2016 has been going on for months.
It involves the internet providers creating internet connection records (ICRs), which can be used to show which websites a person visited and when.
Digital rights campaigners have raised privacy concerns.
“It’s needles in haystacks, and this is collecting the entire haystack,” said Heather Burns, policy manager with the Open Rights Group.
“We should have the right to not have every single click of what we do online hoovered up into a surveillance net on the assumption that there might be criminal activity taking place.”…
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