Should your ISP hold data on your internet usage?

The simple, honest truth is that I do not trust any Government to hold such private data it is only one small step to a totalitarian regime which assumes evryone is guilty of something and therefore needs to be monitored.
We have sacrificed enough of our civil liberties in the name of protecting us from whatever bogeyman the government comes up with.
I certainly do not believe that we should be helping out record and film companies who have consistently ripped us off over the years by charging us even higher prices everytime they re-issue the same intellectual property but in a "new" format. We buy the vinyl, tapes, cds etc and everytime they make even more profit from the same items.

I agree with the comments against having our info stored and, frankly I'm scared about the direction this country's heading in? This info storage is only the tip of the iceberg, we'll all be forcibly chipped within our lifetime. What have our children got to look forward to if we don't stop it now? More importantly..how DO we stop it now?

We live in a police state NOT a democracy, wake up for heavens sake. Spied on from all angles, tracked via mobile phones, store cards, credit cards & the like. Personal privacy went years ago, we are under the jackboot of a government that wants to remove all liberty & rights from it's citizens. What was the point of all our brave soldiers sailors & airmen in WW2 fighting for this to stay. Hitler would probably be smiling now if he were still alive, we are in his world. This new proposal is just another nail in the coffin of democracy/freedom. I detest this country,which I once loved, and the scum that run it now. It's time to make a stand and turn things around. We need a man like the new mayor of Doncaster in charge, not a muppet like Gordon Brown and his bunch of cronies. That's my opinion anyway for what it's worth

absolutely no, this is a invasion of privacy, a act against human rights and a wholly dictatorship idea
facts, no half intelligent terrorist would use open email systems, they heavily encrypt with that unbreakable encryption software thats easily enough to get hold of as its legal in any so called free country
peoples personal communications are private and no goverment deserves to have the right to conteract that.. especially one proven to be technologically ignorant, if they have no advisers who KNOW what they are talking about then they should shut up

the goverment are such hypocrits, siding with removing dictators like sadam but look where they are going with their thinking, its no better.. and refusing to have general elections because they know full well people are miffed with them, its time labour were voted out and never got in power again!

This government in particular has proved to be totally untrustworthy and its performance regards data handling etc is truly awful. From the time that The Arch War Criminal Tony Blair and his cronies lied about Iraq's WMD's ensuring that British Troops would die for lies. Through to the present dishonest and incompetant shower, they have proved not to be trusted. The current expense fiasco only stregthens this view.
No politician of whatever colour can be trusted, and we seem to forget that behind them lurks The Civil Service with their final salary pensions, retirement at sixty, and protection from redundancy. We should be investigating their expenses as well, and prevent them from gaining employment with company's they have dealt with as civil servants. If we are going to set up standards of conduct for MP's such standards should also fully apply to The Civil Service. The body setting up these standards should be totally divorced from Th Establishment in every way.
Finally why's Tony Blairs expenses not been exposed?