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"A spokesman for the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) said the 2002 E-Commerce Regulations defined net firms as "mere conduits" and not responsible for the contents of the traffic flowing across their networks.
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Just as an aside to the Phorm debate this may come back to bite ISP's on both sides of the Atlantic. By testing and deploying Phorm ISP's are proving that given sufficient incentive they can indeed monitor and control the content of traffic on their networks. Something they had previously said couldn't be done. They can't possibly claim that they are "mere conduits" on the one hand then routinely intercept, profile and classify users on the other.
I imagine those who seek to remove "objectionable" content from the networks will not have missed the implications of universal profiling.