Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-03-30 12:57:45 +0200: > Am 30.03.2011 12:48, schrieb Partha Chowdhury: > >> The threat here is that your ISP will log every page visit you do and > >> also has the ability to block certain websites. > >> > > Doesn't every ISP keeps logs of what sites its customers are visiting > > for a certain amount of time ? > > If you live in China, yes. In a free country, I would hope not. I am > pretty sure my provider does not log such information and I think it is > even forbidden by law. > > I am also pretty sure that I do not sit behind a transparent proxy (I do > at work, but not at home). If you live in a civilized country in Europe data retention either is already in place or will be rather soon. The US might have a different approach but I doubt the net result is much different.