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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:57:55AM +0000, Clare Shepherd wrote: > On 11 Mar 2008, at 08:45, Tom Potts wrote: > > > http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ispphorm/ > > Fat chance but hey.... > > Tom did you see how few have signed? When I signed there was only > about 2000+ signatures. No wonder our freedoms are eroded by the day. I don't believe it is an issue of freedom and I don't believe that it is relavent for the Prime Minister's office. The petition calls for: a) This particular proposal to be treated as illegal if it is found to be illegal -- thus a pointless request; and b) for the selling of customer data to be made illegal which is overly broad and would either affect almost every industry or else if it was not equally applied would unfairly restrict the European Internet service provider industry. Plenty of people already agree to have their data aggregated and sold in accordance with European law, and do not find it so horrible. I believe that the concern over Phorm is mostly hysteria out of proprotion with what the scheme will actually entail. Of course if Phorm proves to be illegal then I am fully in support of it being shut down, but so far I see nothing that makes it particularly different than many other already-existing schemes involving the use of cutomer data. Furthermore it can be avoided by moving to a different ISP, so the market will decide if consumers want this. I don't see why any special action needs to be taken with regard to Phorm, rather the general standards of data protection should be monitored and kept up to date with new technology. A lot of people objecting to Phorm already have suppliers that do similar. A good example would be Google. I assume all those who object to Phorm do not use Google Mail, Google Checkout and if they use Google Search they delete all cookies etc. afterwards. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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