Hi mate,I saw Theresa May's announcement about this on the Home Office website a while ago. Firstly it's important to bear in mind that this is not nearly as Orwellian as everyone is making out - calls and text messages will be logged but the content won't be recorded in the absence of a court order (at least in theory!).Onion routing (which Tor uses) is specifically designed to resist surveillance in this way.It is quite a trivial thing for anyone with a modicum of knowledge about computers to know you're running Tor - the data packets are fairly unmistakeable for a very important reason - they're encrypted.As such if you're using Tor to access a hidden service (i.e a website with a .onion extension) then it's virtually impossible for the filth to prove you've visited the site through analysing your data traffic alone. (It is possible to "fingerprint" encrypted data to identify the site you might be visiting but I doubt this would stand up in court - all opinions on this are welcome of course).Your only real worry needs to be for your clearnet browsing activites obviously and also for any non .onion sites you access via Tor which don't use SSL (i.e begin with https:// rather than http://) - obviously Silk Road, Tor mail and so forth aren't amongst these.Of course you should still take the precaution of encrypting your operating system with a secure password but all anyone spying on your data traffic could tell is that you use Tor, not what information you're sending/receiving.V.Quote from: usernamealreadyinuse on May 16, 2012, 08:13 pmThis is a security question, but not really to do with SR, just in general. Bit old news but the Government are trying to make it legal they can have access to all our comms - internet browsing, text messages etc (Im well aware that for some of our citizens this already happens). So when this comes in will the anonymity of using tor disappear?