They want your ISP to store it because it makes it easier for the police and other agencies. such as Local Authorities to request the data.
This is correct, however the point i am making is that if you use an encrypted VPN, your internet use is invisible to your *ISP*. Nothing that you have said has acknowledged or addressed this point.
Your ISP cannot store information about the content of a person's internet use if they are using an encrypted VPN, because all they can see is a stream of random data going to and from one server.
How can you be sure the VPN provider is not tracking and collecting your data, many already do.
You can't be sure, however that is irrelevant to my point that your ISP cannot see your internet use if you use a VPN.
Your VPN can see your traffic, and they may or may not log that information, but your ISP cannot see your traffic if it is encrypted.
The recent media reports have been saying that ISPs are going to have to start storing the content of people's web use (which websites and services a particular individual has used) however that is rendered 100% impossible by the use of VPNs and the like (such as TOR etc)
Have your read about the EU's Data Retention Directive it has been in place since 2006, VPN's are well covered in this document.
This directive would only cover VPNs that are based within Europe, but there is nothing stopping a British internet user from using a VPN based in a country outside of Europe that does not have data retention laws.
Either way, this is irrelevant to my point that VPNs render your internet traffic invisible to your *ISP*.
it makes no difference if you use a domestic or foreign VPN.
This is incorrect, the difference is that if you use a VPN that is based in a foreign country, all your internet traffic is re-routed via a server in that country.
That is a significant difference considering the different laws that different countries have regarding internet traffic.
Data is collected at what are called "endpoints" and via transit cables. Your data is only encrypted from you to your ISP and them the VPN (unless your target endpoint uses SSL/TLS, which is also thought to be vulnerable), after that every request is not encrypted unless you personally encrypt it end to end so it can't be read. All data that crosses boarders is collect.
You are missing my point with this ^ pointless obfuscation.
Since the data traffic is encrypted when it passes to your computer via your ISP, it is rendered invisible to your ISP. That is the point i am making, in response to Theresa May's recent claim that ISPs will have to start logging people's internet use.
How do you think authorities across the world have been able to find members of Lulzsec, anonymous and AntiSec, as well as many child pornography's and track the communications of terrorist groups?
These people are likely caught via targeted action based on specific intelligence, and certainly *not* via the kind of fantasy mass information gathering that Theresa May is wetting her knickers about.
