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Originally Posted by Morden
Not that much space, government, university and private companies networks do this as a matter of fact. Space is cheap why install gigs when you can get terrabytes relatively cheap for a SAN.
I only use about a gig a wek at home moitoring everything, which if I wanted to could be backed up to dvd.
And its not that hard to datamine a sniffer, especially if you have one which already gives a graphical display. You dont need phorm for that and as I said Virgin already do this sort of stuff without phorm and for emails its a legal requirement by HM Gov to store them and has been since at least 2000.
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The point is I have a contract with Virgin Media. I do not have have a contract with Phorm, nor do I want one. That being the case, I should not have to accept that they will profile everything that I do online if I explicitly forbid them from doing so. Furthermore, I don't trust Phorm not to use my data if I opt-out and I have no way of verifying that they are not.
What Phorm intend to do is far more intrusive than what companies like Google currently do for two reasons: (1) It's being done at the network level so is much more difficult to circumvent, and (2) It is applied indiscriminately to everything I look at so I can't avoid it by steering clear of specific sites.
Add to that the fact that the government must go through due legal process before they can access my data (something I don't have a problem with, by the way) and also the fact that (even now) I trust Virgin Media much more than I trust Phorm, and morally, at least, this scheme doesn't have a leg to stand on.