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Story: BT finishes trial, expects to use Phorm

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Posted by: biph (Wednesday 17 December 2008, 7:09 PM)

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I was a customer

LOL yankee geek - I quit BT as a customer, I did not work for them.

I do not know of any smaller companies doing this DPI for target advertising. In the UK we have not got ANY doing this right now. There is target advertising and to be honest I'm not against that.

Targeted adverts is ok. I'm happy to be asked to choose from a selction of companies who I want adverts from. I'm happy to be offered the opportunity to tick boxes against a list of interests. BUT I won't have anyone decide to spy on my interests or those of my family. That is a step out of line.

That's why Phorm is trying to do this. Their previous attempts of getting consumers to install adware were FAILURES. Customers do not want. Why don't they understand that? They will fail this time too because we're not all computer experts but we know a snake when we see one.

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