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| so your happy your ISP is pirating your personal clickstream Im in the UK and i thought id finally get a round to reading this thread as its somewhat related to the UK (and soon the US)Phorm subject, after reading this admitedly very small thread it seems your happy your ISP is pirating your personal (clickstream) data?.
dont you have any data protection act, or RIPA type legislation in your country ?
it seems very odd that the US tech users here and elsewere wouldnt see the exact same problems the UK users are seeing with all this type of unlawful 'profiling for profit'
is the patent for your data collection device potentially far less intusive than the Phorm patent or is this apathy to your property being used for your supplyers profit a US thing?
stop the press:
care of the US NY times and LadyMinion at
»www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12/33···34510801 for first spoting it.
»www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/busin···ef=busin ess
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” 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 .”
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.”
what do you make of that then, puts a while new meaning to official statments such as
“Phorm technology is groundbreaking because it serves relevant advertising without storing data: no PII no IP address no browsing histories.”
and all the rest, dont you think?.
i wonder what the UK and EU data commissioners and the courts will make of it,to name but three, comments…. | |
| I think us in the US just understand that tracking is done continually when you surf websites, for example by networks like doubleclick etc. Having it done at the ISP level is a technical distinction without a real difference to the user.
If they tied it to your identity, or if it even could be tied a la AOL's disclosure a few years ago things would be different. | |
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