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Originally Posted by darthlinux
I dont see why people are so up in air about phorm as slow coach said there are companies that collect your informatoion already its market research I bet the people who are kicking off regarding phorm dont even know how Phorm works and just jumping on the band wagon its gonna be either a opt in or opt out if you guys know so much make sure u opt out all ISP will do this soon
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Applications 'phoning home', search engine tracking and "market research" have virtually nothing in common with Phorm, except they all compromise the user's privacy to some extent.
If you'd kept up with the Phorm technical discussions you'd know that we're eagerly awaiting details of how Phorm's opt-in/out will work without either profiling someone who's opted out or relying on a cookie (which has been ruled out by European privacy guidelines).
And a very large part of the determination to defeat Phorm is precisely to prevent other ISPs from considering this or other ad-laden, wiretapping schemes.
Maybe the guys who'd rather leave VM than accept Phorm know a little more about it than you do?