There are environments where traffic must be logged for regulatory or other legal reasons, so the technique and code to implement it is not universally maliciou

There are environments where traffic must be logged for regulatory or other legal reasons, so the technique and code to implement it is not universally malicious. Implementing the mis-feature on a public ISP will be done by people who think the matter isn't worth risking their job by taking a stand on, and just saying no once the decision has been made several levels above their rank won't help anyone because if they don't implement the feature their replacement will.