Police to be granted powers to view your internet browsing history

[Antman]

Complete non-techy here, but wouldn't they get this information from your ISP so incognito becomes a moot point?

[original PM]

Complete non-techy here, but wouldn't they get this information from your ISP so incognito becomes a moot point?

I guess this is where using a proxy comes in handy??

[WTFH]

Complete non-techy here, but wouldn't they get this information from your ISP so incognito becomes a moot point?

Depends on whether you have a static or dynamic IP address and how often you reboot your router (if it's dynamic), I think.

[NibblyPig]

Incognito does not protect your browsing history from the government, it just means that it doesn't store it locally and doesn't let your incognito session send any cookies or other data that was stored on your computer previously that might identify you.

It offers no protection from people asking your ISP what's going on.

You'd need to use a proxy server and make sure your traffic is https encrypted.

[fullyautomatix]

How many of you are actually worried about police accessing your history ? Privacy matters aside, if they come knocking on your door and want to look at the history, I would gladly let them.

[MarillionFan]

How many of you are actually worried about police accessing your history ? Privacy matters aside, if they come knocking on your door and want to look at the history, I would gladly let them.

WHS. Nothing illegal about fat shaven haven big black cock transsexual nurses is there.

[WTFH]

How many of you are actually worried about police accessing your history ? Privacy matters aside, if they come knocking on your door and want to look at the history, I would gladly let them.

I'd be embarrassed by the number of times I've inadvertently clicked on a link and ended up being redirected to a page belonging to the Daily Mail.

[VectraMan]

Depends on whether you have a static or dynamic IP address and how often you reboot your router (if it's dynamic), I think.

If the ISP are logging what you're doing then they're going to know who uses which IP and when. The only way round it is to use a VPN, but then the fact you're using a VPN makes you stand out as suspicious and then they can demand logs from the VPN provider.

What slightly worries me (to be serious for a moment) is that you don't need to enter a URL to visit a site. A lot of times you get redirected to something you weren't expecting. So you might click on something on nicechristianladies.com and actually find yourself at andywsmum.com, but if the police are looking at your logs they can't tell that you didn't intend to look at such filth, and you can't prove it either.

[WTFH]

So you might ... actually find yourself on andywsmum.com...

...and how many of us can say that we have found ourselves on andywsmum?

[SueEllen]

If the ISP are logging what you're doing then they're going to know who uses which IP and when. The only way round it is to use a VPN, but then the fact you're using a VPN makes you stand out as suspicious and then they can demand logs from the VPN provider.

What slightly worries me (to be serious for a moment) is that you don't need to enter a URL to visit a site. A lot of times you get redirected to something you weren't expecting. So you might click on something on nicechristianladies.com and actually find yourself at andywsmum.com, but if the police are looking at your logs they can't tell that you didn't intend to look at such filth, and you can't prove it either.

Using a VPN isn't suspicious lots of companies make you to use one to connect to their servers if working away site.