Getting internet history off ISP (UK)

[madman12]

I've tried on a few occasions with different ISP's to get my internet history but have always been stonewalled be it from being told they don't have anything to needing a warrant.

Now correct me if I'm wrong here but shouldn't something like my own internet history be freely available to me? Wouldn't all internet traffic coming into or out of my network be part of my personal information thus freely available to me upon my request? That is without a warrant and without having to question them into realising that I do know that they do record and store that sort of stuff.

Based in the UK, have tried searching google and this particular part of the forum with nothing really coming close to answering my question.

Many Thanks

 

[kanewolf]

If you want that kind of data you are free to capture it locally. Add a firewall that collects that data to your local network. It is a grey area for personal info. Many businesses do make transactional data available (phone, credit card, etc). But some don't. The "On Star" system doesn't give you access to the vehicle diagnostics, but that data is obviously available to the car.
Free market economists would say you are free to search for an ISP that will make that data available to you. But if there are none that choose to, then you would have to collect the data yourself.

 

[madman12]

If you want that kind of data you are free to capture it locally. Add a firewall that collects that data to your local network

Indeed somthing I'm struggling to do at the moment since I'm using the ISP router which is locked down to certain things. How would I go about setting up a firewall to collect said data?

 

[kanewolf]

You would want a modem or the ISP router in bridge mode. Then you would put a standalone firewall connected to the modem. A standalone firewall is usually required because it has to have sufficient storage and performance to capture all that data. ALL your traffic would have to go through that firewall device. You would then have a standard router on the "inside" of the standalone firewall. That is the most sure way to capture all your traffic.