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Originally Posted by SMHarman
They will not be. But could do... If they are parsing the entire HTML sent or recieved they will have visibility to this but will discard the data. What's not to say that in the future the company, the government or Mulder and Scully request this information.
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Yes but that is all ifs, buts and maybes. And you could say that about any website that the government or whoever wanted information from. All I am asking is people stick to facts and not conjecture or in some cases pure make believe.
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Originally Posted by Sirius
So are you happy for you surfing habits being sold to a third party company for profit over and above what you are already paying VirginMedia for your Service. Are you then happy to be hit with adverts that you then have no control over that could have been taken from information that was detected from the last person in you family that used your PC. Are you happy that there could be instances where a child will be subject to adult situations because the previous user was a adult ??????
Are you happy that your data will still be sent to a Phorm server located in a Virgin Media pop sites even when you have Opted out, And given the past software and root kit infections that that equipment supplier issued out are you happy to trust that they will not just ignore you and use you data anyway.
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As opposed to other ads I have no control over either. Did not say I was happy with it. Just that a lot of people appear to be making things up as they go along. Your child would only get adult adverts if they went to an adult site. Adequate parental controls would stop that anyway. Don't understand the first part of your second point. As for the second part If the system works as stated they cannot do that even if they wanted to