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Originally Posted by Dephormation
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What assessment they have made of the sufficiency of implied consent for the interception for commercial purposes of internet users' unencrypted communications by internet service providers. [HL4900]
Perhaps we should propose our own "intra-ISP" DPI system - one that still DPI's end user's communications but instead of using it to build a profile of the end-user, builds a profile of websites, collecting potentially commercially sensitive information, and ask the goverment if it stands by the implied consent argument
Suppose our system collects information about commercial websites such as the number of people who click on the "add to basket" link for each product on a site, and the price of the product at the time it was clicked on. The total number of visits to every webpage, and the average amount of time spent looking at each page. The post popular search terms used to find the page.
If like Phorm aims we can get 70% or better coverage, we'll see enough of end-users communications with commercial websites to build a detailed picture of the websites' businesses, and will be able to offer this for sale to whoever is interested.
Or we could have a system that monitors what goods an end user adds to their shopping basket on one site and pops up an offer to undercut their purchases. So for example you might be shopping on tesco and when you click on the checkout link, a page would pop-up offering the same basket of goods for 10% less if you complete your purchase with another site, the great thing is having profiled your purchases, the other site wouldn't need to spend much money designing its site as you'd already chosen the goods, so it would just need a checkout page.