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An overlooked aspect of the draft Investigatory Powers Bill is the significance of demanding that service providers store 12 months' internet connection records. A record of every website visited and internet service connected to, the government presents this as the online equivalent of an itemised phone bill. But this is a false analogy: internet connection records carry far more detail than a phone book, and the government's move to claim them represents an unprecedented intrusion into our lives.