Seems that just maybe the Information Commissioner has grown a pair after all....
Information Commissioner: Phorm must be opt-in only - not great, but it's a start at least, although it completely fails to address the point that an intercept still requires the permissions of both parties (customer and web=page provider), even if the system is
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they're going to use our internet searches to advertise to us? in a...forceful mannor?
I hope I'm missing something, because otherwise I'll let you know how grocery stores work here.
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Google have been using your search data for ages. this uses every single web page you visit. Typing into Google, you volunteer to give them that data. This is a blanket watch of everything you do and everywhere you go.
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With the ISP thing, it's the blanket watching of _everything_ that constitutes the invasion of privacy that goes too far in my book. It's the equivalent of not only do the credit card people know you just bought that album from amazon, but the postman opened up the package, copied the CD and is playing it on his MP3 playrt as he delivers it to you.
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