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Originally Posted by ceedee
While I agree it's important to stop intrusive and insecure trawling of our browsing data, if Hitwise operates as described on Wikipedia then I'd guess that it's not in the same league as Phorm.
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It seems to be exactly the same from the point of view of interception of our data.
The analogy for our telephones would be if BT entered into a mutual contract with a firm that installed wire-tapping (bugging equipment) into the local telephone exchanges, so that they could monitor the number of BT customers that rang up businesses asking questions (i.e. our search terms) about product and services that we are interested in.