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

CaptJamieHunter · 22-04-2008, 12:26

All this talk of cookies helps obfuscate the debate here. There is only one acceptable opt out, something that Phorm never mentioned until last Tuesday night: a network based opt-out which stops the customers' data going anywhere near Phorm's systems.

The cookie thing is irrelevant if your data is still being logged/mirrored/recorded by the Phorm system.

Where the BBC technology article says "the other two [ISPs] will automatically enrol anyone that does not explicitly ask to be excluded." that is an interesting interpretation of "users will not be forced to use the system" which VM have twice said to me.

Time to demand clarification.

22-04-2008, 12:26	#4381
CaptJamieHunter Inactive Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 234	Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797] All this talk of cookies helps obfuscate the debate here. There is only one acceptable opt out, something that Phorm never mentioned until last Tuesday night: a network based opt-out which stops the customers' data going anywhere near Phorm's systems. The cookie thing is irrelevant if your data is still being logged/mirrored/recorded by the Phorm system. Where the BBC technology article says "the other two [ISPs] will automatically enrol anyone that does not explicitly ask to be excluded." that is an interesting interpretation of "users will not be forced to use the system" which VM have twice said to me. Time to demand clarification.