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Originally Posted by serial
If, as is being rumoured, BT/Phorm remove the cookie based system then this will require a change to the report.
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All the direct quotes from BT are that they're just removing cookies from the opt-out.
A poster on iii, Professional Party, claiming to have inside knowledge on BTs technical side, said (Sat 21:51) "BT have proposed a design whereby anyone who has opted-out (nitpicky point here BT - RIPA needs them to opt-in, not opt-out!) will not have their data-stream intercepted and sent to the profilers at all - which would satisfy a lot of consumers and would go a long way towards addressing some of the legal issues raised (there are still a lot of issues to overcome in this regard but that isn't the point I want to make)."
This fits also with my own letters to BT legal and the ICO pointing out the catch-22 in that the traffic had to be intercepted and classified as traffic that must be ignored in order to ignore it, but I think the real driver may be DPA "Section 11" opt-out, which could require ISPs to opt anyone out who puts a request in writing, irrespective of cookies and blocking domains etc.