Thread: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Old 06-04-2008, 15:45   #2503
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Originally Posted by AlexanderHanff View Post
According to Phorm PR they are not being passed the data by the ISP, it is their equipment doing the listening and the ISP don't have any access to it other than the fact they can physically touch it.

I guess it boils down to who the Layer 7 network technology belongs too, so far we have been led to believe (through their PR) that it is Phorm's.

Alexander Hanff
Does it matter who owns the bugging device? Our ISPs are only allowed to listen in on our data traffic for network routing purposes. If our ISP or Phorm wire-tap our data traffic for other reasons then isn't it interception as defined by RIPA?
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