Should we ban Phorm?

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Should we ban Phorm?

Yes
3
100%
No
0
No votes
Don't Know/Care
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 3

admin
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Should we ban Phorm?

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If your ISP is BT, TalkTalk and some others (ask!) then your web browsing may be being monitored and sold by your ISP to Phorm in order that you can be served targetted ads to their benefit.

It also means that data from this, and all other sites, is copied and then sent to you together with data that did not originate from this site. This can compromise your privacy and our integrity.

The EU believes this is illegal and is taking action against the British Government for allowing it to happen:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7998009.stm

Major websites starting with Amazon are seeking to prevent Phorm from scraping their websites:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7999635.stm

And here is some history and comment:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2 ... ar_on.html

If you feel strongly that this is an invasion of your privacy then you should consider moving to an ISP that does not use Phorm. However, I realise that this is not always practical. Hence I can set this website to frustrate Phorm activity. This should not effect any user except to advise those that are being monitored by Phorm that we have attempted to switch the monitoring off for this website. This is the method I am thinking of trialling:
https://www.dephormation.org.uk/index.php?page=25

The poll and this thread is to guage whether this has consensus, or apathy reigns supreme!

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Last edited by admin on 19 Jul 2009 20:42, edited 1 time in total.
admin
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Posts: 2578
Joined: 20 Sep 2004 21:49

Post by admin »

As the response wasn't quite overwhelming I have done nothing. I'm good at that (tm).

Anyway it now looks as if the threat is disappearing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8135850.stm

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