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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

Without completely understanding all the technology that has been talked about in the past five minutes, I have become increasingly alarmed that the possibility of getting the ISP or anybody to look into the total traffic of our e-mail connections was even contemplated by the Government. I hope the Minister will deny that that is even conceivable as one of the technical measures. If not, the issues of privacy that were already alarming me and many other people are much larger than I first realised.