Later tonight I will be writing an academic paper on Phorm (not as part of my degree but as an academic). I will make the paper available in PDF and would appreciate it if as many people possible can publicise it.
It is going to be quite a heavy paper and will focus on the legal issues. I hope to finish it before the markets open tomorrow, depends how long my 2yr old stays asleep.
Alexander Hanff
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Here is another story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3561909.stm
The reason I have posted this link is because it illustrates concerns I raised several weeks ago about how this Phorm technology could lead to very serious consequences.
Many of you may recall that I mentioned the targeted advertising could lead to a situation where a spouse is searching for a woman's shelter online to escape domestic abuse and as a result gets profiled by Phorm and ads relating to women's shelters and support groups for domestic violence are targeted at her browser which the abusive husband then sees and kills his wife in a rage.
Granted, the above article is not a direct example of this but it does highlight the dangers given that the man involved was spying on her internet communications and then killed her as a result.
Alexander Hanff