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UPDATED: Tim Berners-Lee Joins Camp of Phorm Criticism - Poster MarkJ (Monday, March 17 2008)
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"We look forward to speaking to Tim Berners Lee to explain how our technology is a ground breaking advance in delivering targeted ads while protecting privacy online and consumer choice, as we have with other experts."
Never mind storing information - I believe it is wrong for Phorm to collect information from password protected pages of an otherwise public web site in the first place.some pillock above said:"We believe that it is wrong to store Internet users' personal data. Our technology is a real turning point in the protection of privacy online - it does not store personally identifiable information, does not store IP addresss and nor does it store browsing histories.
how can they collect information on password protection pages ? I don't see this lasting long though
even if it's a SSL secure connection ? I thinking to sign up with a openvpn provider and use it that way, till I get way from this crappy ISPThis is easy if I stay with VM and login to the Admin section on ISPreview since this opens inside the browser then they see what I see.
It has also been noted that IE7, Microsft word us the same detais so if in word you had an url then phorm would read it. Think about all the assignments students do and they have to do a biblography the urls would trigger phorm to read it.
Not that I will be worried soon since migration from VM has been set up.
That's a point, they say they won't profile webmail sites, but what about private messaging on sites like ISPReview. By sending a PM the sender clearly has not consented to have it intercepted by a third party.
Sir Tim said his data and web history belonged to him. "It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return."
Here are the notes I took from a sales pitch to a client. Although NDAs were passed around, all of the technical and business consulting staff refused to sign them, so this information is freely available and can in no way be considered a trade secret....
Hi,
I work for the Phorm comms team.
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"We look forward to speaking to Tim Berners Lee to explain how our technology is a ground breaking advance in delivering targeted ads while protecting privacy online and consumer choice, as we have with other experts."
Sir Tim Berners-Lee has seen their presentation, and held a press conference yesterday to try to stop the practice cold.
Thank you, Mel.
Not a site that I normally visit, so I doubt if I'd have come across it - that one is worth bookmarking and passing on to the small number of friends who don't "get it" and think I'm maybe over-reacting!