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Anonymous
(Unregistered)Wed 11-Mar-09 17:00:08

Internet ad tracking system will put a 'spy camera

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Almost every internet user in Britain will effectively have a spy camera put in their homes under new plans to roll out targeted advertising technology in the UK, the founder of the web has warned.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161215/Inte...

deleted
(deleted) Wed 11-Mar-09 17:07:24

Re: Internet ad tracking system will put a 'spy camera

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Let me guess, Phorm?

billford
(moderator) Wed 11-Mar-09 17:12:08

Re: Internet ad tracking system will put a 'spy camera

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Yup, and "By Daily Mail Reporter"

What a combination...

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(deleted) Wed 11-Mar-09 19:11:22

Re: Internet ad tracking system will put a 'spy camera

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1st time I've read a DM article that made sense...am I ill?

I'd expected Alex to be the 1st poster of this...perhaps he's updating his site?

Andrew_W
(fountain of knowledge) Wed 11-Mar-09 19:40:55

Re: Internet ad tracking system will put a 'spy camera

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In reply to a post by billford:
Yup, and "By Daily Mail Reporter"

What a combination...

That same "Daily Mail Reporter " also came up with this grin

Andrew

s�, tenemos no hay platanos

MrSaffron
(staff) Wed 11-Mar-09 23:25:58

Re: Internet ad tracking system will put a 'spy camera

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Google is perhaps confusing things as they are doing tracking as others have without DPI

Andrew Ferguson, [email protected]
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deleted
(deleted) Thu 12-Mar-09 08:49:55

Re: Internet ad tracking system will put a 'spy camera

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I think the issue Alexander and other have raised, though, is that being tracked by google is the price we pay for a free service, each of us is welcome to use a different search engine. Phorm has the potential to grab far more data, indeed that's what it's designed for, it is being 'sold' to the ignorant public (the vast majority of users) as a security tool rather than a big leap onto the slippery slope of full-on internet surveillance

MrSaffron
(staff) Thu 12-Mar-09 08:54:52

Re: Internet ad tracking system will put a 'spy camera

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"each of us is welcome to use a different search engine" this is true, but the latest system seems to possible be extending to cover google adsense sites, though I notice a set of tools to control it from the user point of view are available.

Andrew Ferguson, [email protected]
www.thinkbroadband.com - formerly known as ADSLguide.org.uk

The author of the above post is a thinkbroadband staff member. It may not constitute an official statement on behalf of thinkbroadband.

deleted
(deleted) Thu 12-Mar-09 10:44:45

Re: Internet ad tracking system will put a 'spy camera

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You had me confused there, until I just read the register article

edit - I've just downloaded the firefox plugin - then remembered that I already use adblockplus (turned off for this and a couple of other sites) so I rarely see ads anyway!
Time for me to get some more tinfoil, methinks tongue

Edited by deleted (Thu 12-Mar-09 10:47:51)

kwikbreaks
(knowledge is power) Thu 12-Mar-09 10:52:58

Re: Internet ad tracking system will put a 'spy camera

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That could be fun on a shared computer when they start advertising porn on "My Little Pony" game sites.

Same goes for Phorm too I suppose unless they hook into webcams to check if it is mum dad or little billy surfing.

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