"Even still, the ISP only keeps logs of what URLs you visit and as far as I know they are almost never mined in any way that correlates to your identity." As f

"Even still, the ISP only keeps logs of what URLs you visit and as far as I know they are almost never mined in any way that correlates to your identity." As far as you know is dead right. The ISP knows who you are and what you are doing. Why do you think they receive subpoenas all the time to reveal the identities of people? The entertainment industry has an entire extortion racket going simply because they can ask a court to force an ISP to tell them who you are. Everything you do on the internet has the possibility of being observed. It may not be active but it can be done. We have privacy because we aren't important enough to be heavily watched. The only thing we have is SSL and I for one am not convinced it is as totally secured as many believe it is.