Posts by Alex

Please amend the article

the line

"Phorm has signed deals with BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk to deliver targeted ads based on a user's surfing habits. "

it should read

"Phorm has signed a 'memorandum of understanding' with BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk to investigate the feasibility of delivering targeted ads based on intercepting, modifying and then categorizing user's surfing habits, the deployment of the Webwise platform is currently under review, BT's 'opt-in only' trials have still failed to materialize despite being scheduled for March"

I thank you.

surely if they could just...

..profile my internet connection they could just harvest my vote phorme?

then neighborhoods could watch pretty little graphs showing the political leanings of each block, hey!

BLOCK WAR!!!

how do you price data?

no, but really, say I had a CAT5 lead running between two computers, how does one price up a pattern of 1's and 0's??

Obviously there is infrastructure costs but after the initial investment its only down to maintenance & running costs.

I'm inclined to think that this 'data pricing' is a load of old hoopla

the emperor has no clothes!!!

the world is sleepwalking in to a survelliance society

welcome to the nightmare!

...serves ads??

I thought Phorm Inc had been a tad quiet :D

good one sam

keep up the good work and you could count me in!

true to phorm

Well it appears K*nt's company are setting a 'Gold Standard' in breaches of trust, morals & decent business practice. but then parasites like K*nt have been selling iron pyrite since gold rushes began!

If I was a designer in Sheffield I'd be undertaking a re branding exercise and stinging K*nt & co for the costs & dephormation of your business name!

Health & Safety - now wash your hands

no wonder its customary to bow rather than shake!

if only there was a way that...

...you could gather all of a ministers internet activity, then pass it on to a tabloid or two, I'm sure there must be company's out there that could see the whole of the internet? There's bound to be the odd 'leak' here and there, after all, no systems infallible!

then we'd have full transparency, perhaps there could be some lobbying arranged??

...oh there already is??

its not spyware, its adware...

"...we only want to advertise, not spy on you, well yes we can see the whole internet, but, you know, you can trust us, after all, the big three have all agreed to use our spy *cough* antiphishing systems, well you know, signed up, erm, well looked at it, but they will use it, come on, you can trust us, don't worry you'll automatically be enroled, its so easy for you, you don't need to do anything, well err, no its always been opt in, and of course we would obtain consent, erm, except for those two trials, but erm, stop shorting our shares, agh, read our financial report, its all true, honest, you can trust us, we are really trustworthy, we, erm, welcome you to investigate our systems, no not that closely! oh, erm"

good night K*nt, don't forget to turn off the light.

oh

BTyahoo!

??

malware?

microsoft?

phorm?

gah!

Borough Councils, Microsoft, BTyahoo & Phorm?

"it looks as though you are taking your dog for a walk, would you like to"

"buy a plastic bag"

"meet others interested in dogs"

"see all results in dogging"

* all your feces are belongs to us"

"Inphormed consent"

oh to be a fly on the wall I wonder if they will make their minutes available?

my guess is that they are most likely to eventually all roll over and allow the cookies but add a new category which is something like "ISP Issued Tracking Cookies" and when you click on the description it will have the verbatim PR double speak which announces that this is all for your benefit, move along, nothing to see here. Of course in return the makers of these tools will be offered a preferential OIX service which causes their ads to miraculously appear should you ever search for spyware/adware/malware.

The chances of the "anti-spyware coalition" actually having the morals, ethics and balls to get together and say "phuck off, this is not only spyware but it opens the door to adverts being delivered via an ISP push"

...does it piss you off when your watching TV and there is a break every four minutes?

...does it piss you off the the TV adverts are all delivered to your living room far louder and garishly and without caching your viewing (PVR) there's no way to avoid them?

well if this goes ahead within a very short period you can expect to have ads injected as "your page is loading". No fast forward, no PVR, just your on personalized adverting stream which you are funding with every click.

so the question is:

Is the "Anti-Spyware Coalition" an ethical group of businesses which can see further than the promise of a buck, or, is this just a set up for a PR stunt?

BT's intended trial...

seems to be slipping further and further away now, I wonder if the fact that they were planning on 'inviting' 10,000 to experience having their data pimped has seemed like a negative option now that over 12,000 have independently petitioned the government with out a forced redirect of their browser to

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ispphorm/

(sign it if you haven't already!)

**** STOP THE PRESS ****

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/04/23/fipr-calls-on-home-office-to-withdraw-misleading-advice-on-phorm/

that is, as they say, MINT.

DO. NOT. WANT.

HANDS OFF MY LAYER 7!

"industry standard"

obviously the "universally understood meaning of an input box left blank". means "I am your meat eat me and then sell me"

everyone knows that, its industry standard!

perhaps...

we could all pay an internet license, that would be GREAT!

only phorm can save you now!

I wonder if its possible to rickroll www.phorm.com??

now that would be funny!

sell! sell! sell!

from the 13,831,224 shares issued, so that seems to a be a sale of about 0.468% of the total shares in one trade!!

not an insignificant amount?

I wonder who just dumped their share options then!

European Human Rights

no wonder people who are aware of this behavior are appalled, in Europe people actually have a right to be appalled... ...that right is:

ARTICLE 8

1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.

Whats more RIPA codes of practice state that "resultant data acquired

should be treated as product of the interception." so Mr Data 'anonymiser' it appears that your "product" still counts as interception no matter how many random numbers you allocate or 'untraceable' names you give to it!

Furthermore within the UK, The Report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner for 2005-2006 states: "50. It is fundamental to the Constitution of this country that no-one is above the law or is seen to be above the law." (this makes quite interesting reading:http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/hc0607/hc03/0315/0315.pdf)

I hope BT, Phorm and their Parasitic Friends all choke.

Funny thing about friends and family, you an choose your friends (read ISP's & their Cronies) but you can't choose your family (read Government).

meanwhile in the other media

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-the-right-to-online-privacy-797150.html

followed by...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/online-tracking-firm-phorm-sees-losses-double-807818.html

:D

both hands behind their backs with fingers crossed...

"yes, we can voluntarily regulate ourselves, you have nothing to worry about"

please read:

"all of your activity are belongs to us, truth is lies"

it could be genuine!

...as she now works at BT, perhaps its come from the Phorm PR Dept!

Access Denied

"sorry sir, you cannot enter that sector"

"but its the countryside"

"sir you do not have the correct access rights assigned to your profile"

"what do you mean, access rights? what profile?"

"Sir your access to that sector has been withdrawn, our systems have been advised by Big Telecom that you have requested information on unlicensed brewing processes (keyword: home brewing) in order to protect you from the possibility of a potential tax infringement your access rights to this sector have been throttled, have a nice day"

"do you know the way to centerparks?"

Big Telco in activity profile thieft?

I've been thinking about this:

My web browsing, is user generated content, thus it is a product created directly by my activity.

Think of it in the sense of "usage as a business" I'm using the model of a telemarketing company:

A telemarketing company buy their Telephone/Internet Service from Big Telco,

the telemarketing company then build up Profile Data ('target market information' as a result of Telephone/Internet Service activity.

The Big Telco then purchase the Profile Data produced by the telemarketing company. DATA COSTS MONEY. (any marketing company will tell you that)

Big Telco then use the Profile Data in whatever marketing application they have planned as they have bought typically LIMITED USAGE RIGHTS to that data

Big Telco would be unable to carry out their marketing application without buying the data as they wouldn't have the Profile Data.

Now my clickstream belongs to me, its my activity, it is certainly not the automatic property of Big Telco, what the Webwise/Phorm device proposes is the ILLEGAL DATA HARVESTING of my Click Stream thus robbing me of the ability to use or sell that Profile Data else where.

This is a DATA RIGHTS STING, Big Telco appear to be trying to get the jump on the population, to take ownership of a product of peoples activity, infringing on peoples human rights to privacy at the same time.

This is disgusting, this needs to be stopped.

Can this be brought to the European Commission?

it is astonishing, I read the ICO whitewash and couldn't believe what I was reading, what on earth is the Home Office doing green lighting illegal activity?!?

anybody know if this can get stamped on by the EU?

This makes me feel SICK.

DO. NOT. WANT.

One of the 18,000

I was one of the people who was entered into the parasitic trial without consent.

I am utterly appalled that the number of other people who also "wiretapped".

This is a disgusting abuse of trust and faith.

What I find most appalling that despite several emails to and from BT Directors I have still not received an apology, just belated confirmation that a test did take place despite being told at the time that there was no such thing happening.

In the words of the mighty Tony Harrison: "It's an Outrage!"

BT, looks like the sh17 is about to hit the Phan!

DO.

NOT.

WANT.

...looks like we'll be seeing BT + Phorm in the dock then!

a sensible if belated move by the Guardian

now lets see some sense from BT, etc,

this is parasitic marketing at its most invasive and it, and all its loop holes, need to be cut out as a matter of priority.

good move Guardian, now lets see you report the whole story in the cold light of day?

Parasitic Privacy Infringement?

put simply...

DO. NOT. WANT.