Of Course Privacy is Still a Concern

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3 commentsTuesday, September 30, 2008

British Telecom's Doing ISP-Based Behavioral Targeting

Of Course Privacy is Still a Concern

2 Comments

By Dephormation (WPN reader) - Wed, 10/01/2008 - 06:30

Controversy and the Opt In Factor

So how do web sites, including this one (which is unencrypted) opt in?

Ecommerce sites, sites with Copyright content?

If you own or operate a web site, there's no consideration for your communications privacy, security or data integrity.

ISP customers don't own the content they view, they have a licence to view it. Phorm don't make an identifiable request for the content they copy, it is stolen 'on the fly'.

Phorm doesn't obtain consent to intercept, or a Copyright licence, in advance.

So its utterly illegal.

Given the complete failure of UK regulators to act to protect unencrypted data comms in the UK, the only options that remain to comprehensively protect your web site and business from industrial espionage is strong encryption and/or blocking BT customers.

By John Doe Subversive (WPN reader) - Tue, 09/30/2008 - 23:05

Freedom Incinerator

I think the diagram says it all. There is no technical detail at all about what data is stored/processed. Importantly what independent body polices the channel queries.

Channel: John Doe Subversive

John Doe, John Doe Islington, John Doe Acacia Avenue, Trades Union

Channel: Privacy Freak

fipr.org, worldprivacyforum.com, openrights.org

etc. etc.

Matched channel give him a flash cookie, first party cookie, third party cookie, userdata etc. and if subversive why not send an alert to the management console in realtime.

Bye Bye Freedom.