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[Trooperuk's Weblog] Phorm: Your questions answered: Q: I would like to better understand the strict demarcation of ownership of equipment to be installed in the ISP to really understand the full content of the stream received at the point of entry to equipment under the control of Phorm. Bloggers purporting to be from BT claim that this is the FULL browsing (http - port 80) stream with IP addresses obfuscated in some way.

[gHacks technology news] Firephorm - the anti-phorm Firefox extension: The user cannot opt out of the tracking and data like search queries and visited websites are stored and analyzed. Since British companies are world renowned for data safety it is only a matter of time before data leaks user profiles.

[BBC NEWS | dot.life blog] BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News ...: Even if you "opt-out" of Webwise, each time you try to browse to a website their system intercepts your browser's request for that page, examines it for one of their forged "Webwise-uid" tracking cookies, and if it doesn't find one redirects your browser to Webwise.net so that it can read your browser's Webwise.net cookies to determine that you have opted-out, before redirecting your browser back to the original site you were trying to visit; it then intercepts that request, forges a "Webwise-uid" opt-out tracking cookie for the original site, and finally redirects the browser to the page you wanted to go to in the first place.

[Neowin.net / All] BT and Virgin Media to press ahead with Phorm: And not just that, this WILL increase ISP traffic by 40% by the looks of it, I hope all the people related to phorm and those in the ISPs wanting it all get hit by a bus or something, scum money greeds really **** me off, especially when they moan about 'reducing traffic' yet use something that will increase it.

[: iStockAnalyst.com Symbols Feed] Ad Targeting Based on ISP Tracking Now in Doubt: Shares in Phorm have declined about 75 percent since peaking 11 days after the announcement. A company representative said Phorm CEO Kent Ertugrul, who earlier praised his own company's commitment to privacy, was traveling and unavailable for an interview.

[Thus Magazine] THUS - because it does not have to be that way: bit is the fact that UNIQUELY it is implemented not by a 3rd party, but by the ISP, and involves interception of communications between the surfer and the internet at a very basic level, and this interception is done without consent, and without the option to opt-OUT or opt-in.

[Techwatch Tech News: Satellite TV, Cable TV, Digital TV, Home Media and Hardware] BT to move forward with Phorm: I am extremely concerned that my ISP is considering the technology as my understanding of the way the technology works it violates the spirit, if not the letter, of several of the laws protecting my privacy. Even if I opt out of the targeted advertising, my traffic gets put through their servers and altered e.g.

[The Shifted Librarian] ALA2008 Privacy Revolution Panel: phorm - ad survey company that teams up with ISPs; tracks their users as soon as they log in until they turn off their computers and serve up ads the whole time there is no real way to opt out of it it will be very popular and is being .

[Freedom to Tinker] Opting In (or Out) is Hard to Do | Freedom to Tinker: If it were, wouldn't they do the obvious: have the ISP provide an HTTP proxy that tracks HTTP activity and substitutes Phorm/NebuAd ads, and customers would "opt in" by using the proxy and "opt out" by not using any proxy to surf? (Obviously, there'd have to be some other benefit to using the proxy.

[Comments for Dvorak Uncensored] » Your ISP May Be Tracking EVERYTHING You Do On The Interwebitubes ...: Here’s a link to a primer on how this is NOT like Google, it takes privacy invasion to a whole new level by scanning your total click stream, even if you opt out, Firefox and adblockers won’t prevent that.

[BBC NEWS | dot.life blog] BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News ...: As an IT consultant with many years' experience in telecommunications for both military and civilian customers I am horrified not by the concept of profiling, nor by the bulk of Phorm's specific implementation, but by the precedent this sets: giving a third party access to a highly sensitive and personal stream of data. It's more analogous to the Royal Mail opening every letter, writing down your preferences, resealing the letter and sending it on again.

[The Open Rights Group] The Open Rights Group : Blog Archive » 4 good reasons not to take ...: is something that holds a special promise for you, what you are getting in return for allowing BT to analyse your web surfing habits is an “anti-fraud” feature which is unlikely to give you anything more than the features already built into web browsers Internet Explorer 7 (available for free upgrade to existing Internet Explorer users) or Firefox 3 (also free) - or Opera (thanks for the tip, Glyn!)

[Light Blue Touchpaper] Light Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » Stealing Phorm Cookies: Of course, the website can do this already with any signup information that has been provided, but the only global tracking identifier it has is the visiting IP address, and most consumer ISPs give users new IP addresses every few hours or few days. In contrast, the Phorm tracking number will last until the user decides to delete all their cookies…

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