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Originally Posted by Mick
It's not just adverts, its intrusive bloody spying on peoples browsing habits and not a lot of people want that which is what this thread is all about.
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I think there's more at stake here than many people realise.
A web request travels over a point to point connection, it is not a broadcast transmission open to anyone who cares to receive it*.
And all data on the wire is simply 1s and 0s, web traffic included.
So, if the Government tolerate interception of web traffic without consent of both parties... there is no coherent or logical argument against interception of VOIP, email, SMS, even standard telephony (which is also digital once it reaches an exchange). Indeed, it is clear parasitic 'cross channel' marketing is something Phorm aspire to.
Your right to private data communication is at stake.
Phorm must be stopped
* as was pointed out earlier in the thread, even some forms of 'broadcast' are private, BT were keen to ensure the local loop broadcast of their AGM remained 'private'.