If there's so much left over, it's probably time to give back to the thousands of people in the low-income jobs/factories that didn't get much out of the success of the last years but worked just as hard as everyone at infinite loop....

.... and no wonder if it was 5 years in the making :-P

There were plans in the European Union to introduce such law (enfopol). This also would have forced the providers to allow monitoring in real time without the customer noticing it.
This law were redrawn only at the beginning of this month after the European Parliament had already agrred on the law a month before. Now the UK will go their own way, as will many other countries in the European Union that are quite eager to know what people think, do, and feel.