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Originally Posted by flowrebmit
My understanding was that the RIPA (2000) was introduced so that the police state had sweeping powers to spy on us. I think it ironic that this Act might be a way of stopping Phorm.
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Under RIPA, the government are still required to gain a court order
before initiating interception of a suspect's communications, and to get that court order they must presumably convince a judge that there is just cause.
Once Phorm's hardware is in place, the monitoring of everyone's internet traffic will be constant and persistent; so should a change of statute be made after that point in time, the data will already have been aggregated ready for big brother to browse...
I agree with you that if RIPA can be used to kill this Phorm deal, it'll be ironic
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Originally Posted by OF1975
Ok followed a link from the badphorm website to get to this blog:
http://seanprice.net/blog/2008/phorm-talk-back/
That blog includes a response that PhormTechTeam emailed to him and I quote:
"We believe that, given the chance to understand our technology, people will reach the same conclusion as Privacy International and external auditor Ernst and Young: that Webwise represents a major, postive breakthrough in online privacy."
Now, to be fair to Phorm, its unclear precisely when this email was sent but the timestamp for the blog itself is dated today. If their email to this blogger was sent in the last few days then it seems Phorm are still peddling the lie that Privacy International supported/audited them when in fact it was 80/20 Thinking. Do they not get it? Every time they lie, obfuscate, mislead us, that they damage their own PR argument that "you can trust us" etc |
I wonder how much longer these supposedly intelligent people at Phorm and their PR firm can continue to "believe" that UK ISP customers will "reach the same conclusion" as Ernst & Young, when everywhere they turn on the internet they see posts like those on this forum. It's been a month now, we've all been "given the chance to understand" their technology (more like: we've managed to find out how it works despite their best efforts to obfuscate) and we're still saying "**** OFF"