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Originally Posted by flowrebmit
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.
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Maybe I've misunderstood the basics of how Hitwise operates?
The difference that I'd consider makes Hitwise less dangerous than Phorm is that they only receive amalgamated data from the ISPs (rather than 'personalised and maybe anonymous' data for Phorm) and, for their saleable statistics, they're only interested in very large datasets.
I've no objection to, say, Amazon knowing that 10% of all VM users visited a bbc.co.uk webpage every day. Or that only 0.0001% (me) reads my blog every week...
I'd put that on about the same level as Google knowing almost every move I make!
Go on, burst my security bubble?
