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Originally Posted by Portly_Giraffe
Ref http://cryptome.org/ho-phorm.htm (dated 11 March 2008), I have emailed Simon Watkins to ask him:
(1) On what basis do you think website owners' consent to interception is generally implied (para 15)? What if the web page presented formed part of a private or tailored communication with the user - for example, a commercial quote or a message?
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More to the point, how are Phorm going to identify websites that specifically deny consent to interception? All a website owner has to do is include a line of text stating that they do not consent to that site, or even a particular page on a site, being intercepted and the ISP is breaking the law. I'd be interested to know how the system is going to identify and differentiate between consensual and non-consensual pages without intercepting them to find out, especially as no information has been forthcoming about what site owners should put in their robots.txt file.