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Originally Posted by SelfProtection
With it being the HO, failing to check the legalities of any proposed new Commercial System Properly, would you call that Incompetence or Negligence?
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So far, the FoI requests have shown that the government bodies have not been given any information upon which to base a technical review. PR and spin is all that they have received.
Also, don't forget that the campaigners see DPI, UID and OIX as one system. When Phorm talk to anyone DPI is not even considered.
The UID contains no personal information and the OIX is outside the ISP so has no way of picking up any personal data. "No personal information" is the one constant when it comes to adware and is what makes it so attractive to the brand ad networks.
The ISPs want to sell our data, the brands want to use that data. They are the real enemy in all of this. In the UK we basically have a monopoly when it comes to ISPs so there is no choice. When it comes to brands, can you imagine a world where just one brand is boycotted? - imagine no one buying Pepsi or Coke and only buying shop labeled cola.
It is the consumers who are between a rock and a hard place. It is the consumers who need to be protected. That is what the laws should do.