"Simply put, three of the UK's largest ISPs (Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk) have decided to sell your private browsing history to an advertising broker. Yes, the entire list of every web page you visit gets sent to Phorm (the broker) in real time, as you click, so they can send you 'targeted advertising'. Naturally the ISP's are not too keen on telling their users this, they'd much rather feed us all platitudes about how it'll help combat phishing and how the targeted adverts will be so much better than the random ones we see today. In fact, they didn't even announce it to the UK press, we had to find out about it from the New York Times!"
http://www.badphorm.co.uk/page.php?2
http://www.beta.bt.com/bta/forums/th...art=0&tstart=0
- Official BT statement
Have you ever heard of this? No? Ofcourse not because its an "opt-out" basis which means you will automactically be opted-in to have all your browsing history stolen (this means everything, including entire emails - this advertising company will have the ability to read everything on your screen)
"So what do they actually see?
Phorm doesn't just see the URL of every page you visit, they see the entire content of every single web page (with the exception of encrypted pages). That means they can read your mail if you use most types of webmail, view all the posts you make or read on web forums, obtain the content of most webforms you complete, in fact just about anything you do on the web that is not encrypted can be hoovered up by Phorm. Phorm claim they do not store this information for more than 14 days."
So if you belong to either BT, Virgin or TalkTalk broadband, your information (browsing history etc) is being sold to an advertsing company that has links with rootkits and spyware!!! And its NOT anonymous!
How the hell can we allow these scum to get away with this???
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