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:
“As you browse, we’re able to categorize all of your Internet actions,” said Virasb Vahidi, the chief operating officer of Phorm. “We actually can see the entire Internet.”

Well don’t I feel all happy and secure now?
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#1522
“”
A Company Promises the Deepest Data Mining Yet.
By LOUISE STORY
Published: March 20, 20.08

Amid debate over how much data companies like Google and Yahoo should gather about people who surf the Web, one new company is drawing attention — and controversy — by boasting that it will collect the most complete information of all.

The company, called Phorm, has created a tool that can track every single online action of a given consumer, based on data from that person’s Internet service provider.”

GO Virasb Vahidi, the chief operating officer of Phorm and PRTeam….
“

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

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.

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

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.)