Cable Forum - View Single Post - Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]

mrjolly · 07-04-2008, 14:57

Hello again Phorm team!

Can I ask another few questions? (Please feel free to add it to the list of my other questions which you still haven't answered!)

In reading the technical writeup of your system (specifically points 20-24) it is obvious that any website could obtain my webwise UID as you forge the cookies it sends back to me and insert it into them. For example, by visiting a site that uses http and https, they'll be able to read it.

What is to stop other websites from using my webwise UID and profiling me?
What if these websites then share this data too, or publish it?
Did you know that some cookies might have personal data in them?

Bearing that in mind, do you still claim that your system 'creates a gold standard for user privacy' and 'fully protects user privacy'?

07-04-2008, 14:57	#2547
mrjolly Inactive Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 6	Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797] Hello again Phorm team! Can I ask another few questions? (Please feel free to add it to the list of my other questions which you still haven't answered!) In reading the technical writeup of your system (specifically points 20-24) it is obvious that any website could obtain my webwise UID as you forge the cookies it sends back to me and insert it into them. For example, by visiting a site that uses http and https, they'll be able to read it. What is to stop other websites from using my webwise UID and profiling me? What if these websites then share this data too, or publish it? Did you know that some cookies might have personal data in them? Bearing that in mind, do you still claim that your system 'creates a gold standard for user privacy' and 'fully protects user privacy'?