ISPs to record emails and calls

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/06/internet-data-storage

Some ISPs are going to start recording all e-mails and calls over the next 12 months because of a law that went into place on April 6th. This is water that I have already treaded in my blogs but it is worth continuing to talk about as privacy is a very important issue to me when talking about the internet especially. For example, I had no idea that this law even existed until I read this article. AND the only reason I read this article was because I have to maintain this blog for my Law class. This really disturbs me because this is the kind of thing I am interested in and I relatively keep up on news and I have not heard about this.
The point that I'm getting at is I understand that sometimes things like this need to be done, and I am someone who can see both sides of the Patriot Act which was highly controversial, but I would like to be made aware when things like this are going into effect.