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Originally Posted by Peter N
Nobody knows exactly how it will work because Phorm ain't saying and the cookie based approach may or may not be used by BT. BT have also changed their description several times including variously indicating that opted-out customers' data will or will not go through the profiling routines. It's also debatable just how many steps are involved - variously believed to by three or four though some have suggested as many as six or seven.
Some people have claimed that there are duplicate cookies though most now agree that there is one Webwise cookie and the websites' regular cookies with some extra code attached.
Given BT's statements regarding using a non-cookie opt-out system (although they only stated that this would be for the full roll-out) there is really no single definition of the system that we can safely say is the "correct" and complete version and even if the trial goes ahead there's no saying that the system used there will be the same one that is used in the final release.
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Isn't that a bit like what Privacy international are slating Google for and Google cannot stalk my every click, but yes they have a van going round videoing the streets. They blur out faces and this they keep a secret Privacy International jumps in wanting all the details on how. Because Google will not then they start to become a target for Privacy International seems the privacy rules by them are becoming dfistorted.
Phorm can gather my home details stored on my PC anything I type on a page they have the ability to log, store and sell to any one who will pay they can copy everything I see, they havne't shared anything about how they will do this, what the scripts will actually harvest we just have the word of one man that we already don't trust and blinded by cash greed BT that it will not do this.
Which would you prefer?
Privacy International are starting to cloud the good reputation they have built up, starting to look like a buy out to me sad when such good reputations became tainted by someone like Kent.