How does that relate to the overall picture, the new powers compel your ISP to monitor and handover a record of all the places you visit.
Would visiting a SSL website mean that the visit would not appear on your record, ie: the ISP can see activity but has no clue as to what you have logged onto ?
They know where you've been (the IP address, and hence the domain) but they don't know what you saw. At the moment, AFAIK, that's pretty much all they're logging at the moment anyway, i.e. which numbers you phone, which addresses you send email to, which websites you visit, but not the content. The server will record the actual http requests, so if they (the Feds) seize the web server logs, they can tie your IP address to a particular file on a particualr date and time, but they still have to do some work to prove what the content of a particular file consisted of at that time, because they don't store a copy of the content as they snoop on the request.
They know where you've been (the IP address, and hence the domain) but they don't know what you saw. At the moment, AFAIK, that's pretty much all they're logging at the moment anyway, i.e. which numbers you phone, which addresses you send email to, which websites you visit, but not the content. The server will record the actual http requests, so if they (the Feds) seize the web server logs, they can tie your IP address to a particular file on a particualr date and time, but they still have to do some work to prove what the content of a particular file consisted of at that time, because they don't store a copy of the content as they snoop on the request.