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Nice analogy, but wouldn't it be more accurate if you replaced "letter" with "postcard"? And it wouldn't be the postman having a look, but the sorting office. I'm not sure that any laws would then be broken.
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you might think so yes, but if its true what pete says on
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/...e-phorm-storm/
then perhaps not.
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Pete Says:
March 12th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Its important to note its not just your web surfing that’s vulnerable to Phorming.
Microsoft Office products, when they request content from the web, do so using the same ‘user agent’ identifier as Internet Explorer.
In non technical terms, this means Phorm can’t differentiate between web requests from Microsoft Office, Open Office, and Internet Explorer.
Consequently, if you open an email in Outlook with embedded images for example, or a Word office document with web content in, the requests that your office software sends to the web will be indistinguishable from Internet Explorer.
Assuming Internet Explorer is on Phorm’s white list, Phorm could know which email newsletters you receive, when/if/how often you read them. It could know which Word documents from which companies you had opened and read.
See;
http://www.badphorm.co.uk/e107_plugi...iewforum.php?6
for details.
Phorm must be stopped. Opt in isn’t even tolerable any more.
Otherwise, the only way to opt out comprehensively is to opt out of your ISP. :o(
Pete.
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