totally bad phorm old chap
By Sharon Jackson in Reader
Posted in Internet on March 20, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I was reading my fellow bloggers and realised noone’s mentioned Phorm. So what’s the ITPro blogging community got to say about the hoo haa?
Personally I agree with something I read recently about it (it may have been Tim BL) that it’s akin to the Royal Mail opening all your letters so they can see what junk to send you. Even my non-tecchie husband was horrified by the idea.
Anyway, I’ve signed the petition and joined a few groups on Facebook but I’m unsure where to go from here. Some days I wish that I could live without the internet if this is where it’s going.
Comment by popper - March 20, 2008 on 10:31 pm
you could go and read the cable forum thread, we try and fill in any and all Phorm related liks and storys as they happen, all welcome , its not just cable users there.
its an intesting quote from the us news services.
sure to make the UK readers and press to really start questioning the Phorm PR statments , as its from the COO and he should know his companys kit capabilitys.
totally oposite the official UK line they cant see anything , a lie?
an example comment:
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12/33628733-virgin-media-phorm-webwise-adverts-updated-page-102.html
#1521
“I just found a new article on the NY Times that has an interesting quote (may need to login to view):
Quote:
Comment by - March 21, 2008 on 4:04 pm
Thanks popper, I’ve passed the info around.
For anyone else who’s interested I found this site and though ‘anonymous’ posted a relevant (if long) comment
http://denyphorm.blogspot.com/2008/03/attempt-to-report-crime.html
Comment by - March 25, 2008 on 5:20 pm
I in agreement with all that really - and I think thats a good comparison to the royal mail etc - although I have a feeling that it may be the way that isp’s are going - theres already a whole problem with isp’s possibly monitoring downloads and what p2p activity is happening and I think this is also wrong.
Comment by - July 2, 2008 on 3:08 pm
Sir Tim Berners-Lee said recently in an interview with the BBC that ISPs should behave like any other utility company. “I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house,” he added.
“It supplies connectivity with no strings attached. My ISP doesn’t control which websites I go to, it doesn’t monitor which websites I go to.”
There are still ISPs which do that. My view is that most of the big ISPs are attempting to monetise their customers at every turn and often providing lousy service at the same time.
Nick
Comment by frank bailey - September 5, 2008 on 1:44 pm
The internet as we all know and love it is destined to become as commercialised as mainstream TV, and even worse, will be used extensively to monitor us, in every way, by everyone who can afford to do so.
Local Councils in the UK are already demanding the right to snoop; The Home Office is upgrading their ‘intercept protocols;’ and Webwise, (the public brand name of Phorm) once established, will be free to sell their data to whoever they like, good or bad. Plus its only a small step to go from their allegedly anonymous data capture to identified data capture.
Its not looking good.
While some of us prepare to use encrypted proxies to browse, the Home Office are also pushing for powers to demand encryption keys from private citizens.
Social Networking Sites like Facebook are, anyway, preparing the younger generations for private life WITH NO CONCEPT OF PRIVACY! (google Charlie Stross blog - i will try and find it if i can- projecting current trends into a likely future. excellent reading.)
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