Presently, the British Parliament is in the process of passing legislation to force ISPs to inspect all data packets passing through their systems for signs of illegal activities. Meanwhile, many of the major ISPs themselves are currently working out a deal to sell anonymized browsing records to a former spyware company so as to inject targeted advertising into a user's internet browsing. This despite the fact that in recent years, there have been at least two scandals involving the ease by which so-called anonymous datasets can be associated to specific individuals.
Both of these events merely seem to be yet another example of how privacy concerns in the UK are being pushed aside. Even with the troubles in this vein in the US going on, it's still frightening to see these sorts of things going on anywhere in the world, especially to this degree.