However, it‘s pretty clear that he has no idea what this all means. He gave an absolute train-wreck of a TV interview on SkyNews, trying to defend the policy, in which he claims that the metadata rules won‘t track your web surfing habits, but just what websites you visit — as if that‘s a different thing. You can see the video here. It‘s quite incredible. First he claims that the telcos „already collect this data“ for billing purposes, but they want to change the law because now flat rate plans mean telcos might not track this data. But then he jumps to internet metadata (which, uh, has never required tracking for billing purposes) and things get ridiculous quickly.