If your concerned about your privacy , the only way is to tunnel up and get a VPN .
Your privacy was voted away with the passing of the Digital Economy Act and Data collecting will only increase as time goes by .
There is every point in kicking up about any infringement on your privacy but i personally think it's all futile ! as they want control of the web and what you can read and see , or if you like , want to moderate it .
I may have the wrong end of the stick as i haven't read the full thread but it looks like the members posting think we are heading towards phorm -
Yes, will this really be �free� or will it be funded by behaviourally targeted advertising based on users browsing habits?
Just seen this on the blog ....... sounds like Phorm to me.
From the bit I know it would seem to be easily used for Phorm like purposes.
if this is the case then the Q & A below from the BBC site makes interesting reading.
Q: I would like to better understand the strict demarcation of ownership of equipment to be installed in the ISP to really understand the full content of the stream received at the point of entry to equipment under the control of Phorm. Bloggers purporting to be from BT claim that this is the FULL browsing (http - port 80) stream with IP addresses obfuscated in some way. Is this true? And if so, what safeguards over employee recruitment do Phorm have since they will be in an extremely powerful and trusted position, being able to read 10m peoples' web traffic.
A: No, this is not true. IP addresses are not passed in any form, even obfuscated, to Phorm. All that is passed is a limited digest of page data from each navigation. This data is never stored on disk and is immediately deleted from memory as soon as a product category match has been made.
We have obtained an offcial statement in respect to this issue which I have quoted below
We are developing some really exciting new security and parental control services, which will be based deep within our network infrastructure, to provide our customers with greater protection for all the devices they connect to their broadband line with. We�ve had considerable feedback from customers that PC-based software only deals with part of the wider security problem facing today's internet users, so we�ve developed these new services to help improve our customers online experience with us.
In preparation for the launch of these services, as our users surf the internet, details of websites visited are put into a list. Scanning engines then compare this list to a blacklist (sites that have been found to contain recent threats) and whitelist (sites that have been recently scanned with no threats found); if the site is not on either of these, it will visit the site and scan it for malicious code. Sites that are already on either list are not scanned again until the following day.
Our scanning engines receive no knowledge about which users visited what sites (e.g. telephone number, account number, IP address), nor do they store any data for us to cross-reference this back to our customers. We are not interested in who has visited which site - we are simply scanning a list of sites which our customers, as a whole internet community, have visited. What we are interested in is making the web a safer place for all our customers.
In due course we will be trialing and launching these services. We hope to be able to share more info on all of this soon.
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