NDM: WEEK 10(ii)

Broadband bills will have to increase to pay for snooper's charter, MPs are warned

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/11/broadband-bills-increase-snoopers-charter-investigatory-powers-bill-mps-warned
Recent reports inform us that if the snoopers charter is to be passed and funded, consumers will have to pay more on their internet bills, MPs are warned. They are unaware of just how much data is used by the average person; the article states that a common gamer plays through steam, live-streams using twitch, whilst using skype or something similar to communicate with friends, which is a huge amount of data being used by one person, let alone the whole population.

• “The bill appears to be limiting the amount of funds available to a figure that we don’t recognise would be suitable for the entire industry to do it,” he said, adding that “the ongoing costs of looking after the data … will have to come out of price-rises”.
• “On a typical 1 gigabit connection we see over 15TB of data per year passing over that connection … If you say that a proportion of that is going to be the communications data, it’s going to be the most massive amount of data that you’d be expected to keep in the future.
• “for UK-based companies that serve non-UK customers, there’s some evidence, from what is happening to Microsoft right now in the US, that that can really undermine the trust of non-UK customers"

I think this is due to peoples increase dependence on the internet, and the fact that every think is accessible and more convenient on the internet, therefore leading to more and more people going using more data.