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Originally Posted by JohnHorb
The anti-Phorm campaign is about the abuse of ISP's positions to intercept our private surfing for commercial gain. Whilst not entirely un-related, the debate about the 'surveillance society' and privacy vs security is a separate, though worthwhile, debate, and should not (IMHO) be allowed to dilute this thread.
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I agree with John Horb. One practical comment - Thursday's Lord's questions were characterised by some blurring of boundaries between:
- DPI/Behaviourally targeted advertising/Phorm/Webwise (Miller/Northes)
- File sharing, music and game copyrights and monitoring/prosecution and release of names and addresses by ISP's/google to copyright holders of said music/games
- The government's plans for new "super database".
This whole area is complicated enough for our technophobe legislators, and I'd like to keep the NO DPI/NO PHORM/NO WEBWISE question in clear blue water away from the other two - even though there IS overlap. At the moment it is clarity and understanding that we are looking for - and mixing the different things in this thread won't help. I'm not against the other things - I just don't want to have to constantly try and differentiate them here and in contacts with legislators and opinion formers.
The task once again
Find the
UNinphormed
and the
DEphormed
and get them
INphormed
so that they become
REphormed
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http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34...post11849.html