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Originally Posted by amateria
Looks good to me. I would add that Phorm is not just reading the websites you visit, but all the data you send to websites is read - which could include sending emails, posting in forums and details of orders sent as part of shopping online. Phorm say thy don't keep this data, but your ISP reads it, to decide whether to strip out sensitive information. We have no way of knowing how safe this stripping out is.
Also, I'm not sure I would call Phorm a new element of the internet. That is exactly how Phorm would like us to see it, but it is not part of the internet, but a wart on the side, a parasite. Perhaps it is "a new surveillance technology, aimed at ordinary people". That is an accurate description which puts a different complexion on what Phorm would like to do.
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Thanks to Lucevans and Amateria. I have used your suggestions to enhance
http://www.inphormationdesk.org by updating "What is Phorm?" and "What does it do?"
I've also reworded "Has It started yet?" to make it clearer, and revised unanswered question 7 on opt out.
If you have a moment, please review these changes.
Later this evening, I'll include acknowledgments and a site icon (thanks ManxMinx). Also I want to add a page giving ISP postal addresses to write to. For Virgin I have the complaints address and Sir Richard Branson's address. Can people suggest an operational postal address and an appropriate executive postal address for the other two ISPs?