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Published: Saturday, 26 October 2013 19:45
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Written by Ben Tasker
Originally published on Benscomputer.no-ip.org 18 March 2008
There have been murmers online that BT are planning to do the same as Carphone Wharehouse
and make a few changes to the Phorm system, by creating a virtual wall between people who haven't opted in and the profiling
hardware. They also intend to do away with the cookie 'opt-out' and create something more in line with the law. I sent
BT an email a few days ago asking a variety of questions about the system (I'm on BT and don't like the system one bit) and got the
following as a reply
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Published: Saturday, 26 October 2013 19:36
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Written by Ben Tasker
Originally published on Benscomputer.no-ip.org 5 May 2009
A question posed on the StopPhoulPlay blog;
The more
interesting question is this: if the Home Office and the
many expert legal advisors we consulted are wrong, how is it that a
system such as GMail - which scans emails from non-account holders
without their consent to GMail users - is not also an ?interception?
and as such not also a prime target of their campaign?
Unlike
Gmail?s webmail service, which is perfectly legal, Phorm?s
system is fully anonymous, does not look at email and does not store
personal information such as IP addresses. Surely if FIPR/ORG is
genuinely interested in a fair debate and the application of law as it
sees it, the question merits a response?
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Published: Saturday, 26 October 2013 19:22
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Written by Ben Tasker
Originally published on Benscomputer.no-ip.org 29 June 2009
In a casual spare moment I clicked onto Phorms Website, once I got past
the vomit evoking mess that is the Webwise Discover advert page, I noticed
that there has been a bit of a shake-up since I last visited.
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Published: Saturday, 26 October 2013 19:28
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Written by Ben Tasker
Originally published on Benscomputer.no-ip.org 26 March 2009
I've been having a conversation with NoIP.com recently, they provide the DNS Re-Direct for Benscomputer.no-ip.org, about Phorm and the Webwise system. Although I completely disagree with Phorms systems using Opt-Out, I also do not want to help them monetize their customers browsing behaviour.
So, some time back I sent an e-mail to their website exclusion list, stating that I did not give permission for them to scrape my site for their own benefit. I received a reply effectively stating that as the WHOIS query for the domain (no-ip.org) does not match my details, the request was being viewed as unauthorised and would not be actioned.
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Published: Saturday, 26 October 2013 19:11
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Written by Ben Tasker
Originally published on Benscomputer.no-ip.org 14 June 2009
About a week ago, I wrote about Webwise
Discover, Phorm's new 'service'. At the time I questioned just how
Phorm's survey managed to find such a large proportion of responders
interested in their service, to me it seemed that these users had not
been fully informed before being asked.
It now appears that I was correct. Over at the PC-Pro
Forums (thanks for the tip Peter) there's a post by a user called
Jonaba, who claims he was one of the respondents. He claims that at no
point was Deep Packet Inspection mentioned, and in fact the actual
reason for the technology was that well hidden that it took him a
couple of minutes to even clock onto what the survey was about.
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