That means if an individual is tracked through the information that is recorded to your network someone is going to want you to put a name to the traffic they have been watching. Most of us do not record this information, or if we do it is not for a long period of time. How long will it be then until these laws are extended to ensure that companies have to record this information. This will force all of us to pay for the storage required to keep tabs on the country.
This is of particular concern when you work for an establishment where people entering the site do not always have anything to do with the organisation what so ever. This though is true of many companies, I read once of a man that spent a day going to meetings of a company he did not work for. He was never challenged even when one of the meetings he sat in was a team meeting! Even if people don't come in there is still the possibility of piggy backing on your wifi with stolen/lost/insecure/given credentials. I suspect that we are looking at investing a lot of the students £9000 a year on this tracking in the not very distant future.
Overall my feeling is that this legislation is not really what they say it is but it is the need of government to know what people are thinking and doing. Existing powers that let police etc. listen in and track those they have reason to believe are guilty are more than enough. This legislation assumes we are all guilty and need to be watched, and the truth of it is that we probably are. We all will have some thoughts that differ from those in power, it only takes for them to decide those thoughts are illegal. I am in deep trouble when they decide that people who think handbag dogs are an abomination are wrong thinking and should be arrested!
Freedom to think for ourselves is much lauded but it is also the enemy of those that want to control.
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