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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

This brings us straight back to the last point that the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, was addressing. Paragraph (b) prevents a subscriber from gaining access to particular material or limits such use. It has raised the question in many minds, including mine, of what exactly is being proposed here. Without really understanding what sort of measures the Government are proposing, my amendment is intended to ensure that they do not include something which amounts to reading the subscriber's traffic—in other words, reconstructing it so that you can see what the subscriber is downloading. That would amount to surveillance on a scale at which the RIP Act balked, and is not something that should be contemplated without a great deal of careful consideration, and certainly not in a procedure that is subject only to the affirmative resolution. I beg to move.