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"Paul P" <PaulP@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Phormwatcher" <nospamthanks@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Events
>> July 16th - Protest at the BT AGM, Barbican Centre, London
>>
>> On July 16th 2008 there will be a protest rally at The Barbican Centre
>> (The Barbican Theatre) in London. The purpose of the event is to
>> protest against plans by BT Group PLC, Virgin Media and Car Phone
>> Warehouse to deploy intrusive technology across their broadband
>> networks for the purpose of profiling the behaviour of their customers
>> which is then sold to Phorm Inc. (formerly 121Media) and used for
>> their Open Internet Exchange (OIX) service.
>>
>> You can read updates regarding the event on the following web page:
>>
>> https://nodpi.org/category/events/
>> How it works?
>>
>> Phorm Inc have signed exclusive contracts with Virgin Media, BT Group
>> PLC and Car Phone Warehouse (TalkTalk) to install Layer 7 network
>> switches within the core broadband networks in the UK. Without
>> getting too technical the system (branded as WebWise) intercepts every
>> single web based communication you initiate in your browser unless
>> they are encrypted - which most are not.
>>
>> It then inserts software cookies on to your computer for the purpose
>> of gathering behavioural statistics based on the web pages you view;
>> it also makes a copy of every web page you view as it is being sent to
>> your PC and builds a list of key words based on the contents of the
>> web page.
>>
>> This type of behavioural profiling is very rich data and can be used
>> to determine many things about your life and who you are such as:
>>
>> 1. Topics you are interested in
>> 2. Your Political Opinions
>> 3. Your Health
>> 4. Your Financial Status
>> 5. Your Sexual Preferences
>> 6. Where you live
>> 7. When you are or are not at home
>> 8. Your Investments
>> 9. Who you communicate with
>> 10. What you type on web forums or social network sites
>>
>> This type of information is very useful for advertising companies as
>> it allows them to target you with commercial advertising when you
>> visit web pages. However this type of information is also protected
>> by many laws within the UK and EU because it is classed as personal
>> information which most people believe should be private. For example,
>> do you really want advertising companies to know what investments you
>> have or the contents of your emails?
>>
>> You can read more about the issues surrounding this technology by
>> reading the other pages on this web site and following some of the
>> links in the right hand margin.
>> Event Details
>>
>> Date : 16th July 2008
>>
>> Time : 10:00am - 5:00pm
>>
>> Place: Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London. EC2Y 8DS
>>
>> Directions
>>
>> Directions to the Barbican
>>
>> https://nodpi.org/events/
>>
>> We will be gathering outside the main entrance for the majority of the
>> day. The best route to the main entrance is from the barbican tube,
>> but go right to the end of Beech street and turn right as per the map.
>> Purpose
>>
>> The purpose of the protest is twofold:
>>
>> 1. To raise public awareness on the issues surrounding behavioural
>> advertising and threats it places on privacy.
>> 2. To present the City of London Police with a case file based on
>> covert trials carried out by BT and Phorm (then 121Media) in
>> 2006/2007.
>>
>> The Covert Trials
>>
>> In 2006 and 2007 Bt and Phorm (then 121Media) carried out two covert
>> trials of this technology (called PageSense in 2006, ProxySense in
>> 2007 and WebWise in the present) which means they did not seek the
>> consent of their customers. These trials constituted criminal and
>> civil offenses under various laws. You can read more information
>> about this on the following web page:
>>
>> https://nodpi.org/2008/06/04/bt-covert-trials-in-2006-the-facts-about...
>>
>> And for the legally minded, you can read my legal analysis of the
>> covert trials here (PDF):
>>
>> https://nodpi.org/documents/phorm_paper.pdf
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>
> Just use TOR. Easy to do and it would annoy the major companies if they
> couldn't
> track customers. What are people afraid of anyway, all ISPs log the sites
> people
> visit and save emails. I find it's only fraudsters, criminals and
> paedohphiles that
> object to people seeing which sites they visit.
> Why would people need to hide what they did if it wasn't illegal.
>
I use my banks online banking service and I'm not impressed with the idea of
the pages being intercepted by another system.
Trevor Smith
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