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Originally Posted by Peter N
BT have stated in their revised FAQs that opted out customers are completely removed from the profiling system.
I only include for the sake of accuracy and make no comment on the validity of the statement.
53. What happens when I switch off BT Webwise?
When BT Webwise is off you won't receive warnings before reaching fraudulent websites. BT Webwise will not scan or collect any data from the web pages that you visit to see if there are better adverts to show you; no data, in fact, will be analysed, stored or passed to Phorm or any other partner if you are switched off. You'll still see adverts in the normal course of visiting any participating website. |
And, in the letter BT sent to R Jones, where they comment about RIPA compliance, BT clearly say that "If an interception is required to give effect to a customer's (or website owner's) decision not to participate, we do not consider that a consent is required."
Tie that in with the diagram at
http://webwise.bt.com/webwise/customer_choice.html and there is no doubt at all that everything is intercepted by the DPI system (level 7 switch) - "all HTTP traffic" goes through the cookie redirect circus.
I keep hoping that the diagram will be updated for the cookie-less version. If they are not storing the UID in a user cookie, where are they storing it? - somewhere in the green, blue or orange zones?
Also note, there is no path for data FROM the internet into the system, yet BT legal clearly say that data on that path is being intercepted by the system.