I know there are a few UK members here so forwarding this on.
BadPhorm - When good ISPs go bad!: Welcome
Anti Phorm League
I know that the government do not take notice of their petitions but it is good for bringing awareness to this, so please sign it, after all it takes 2 seconds. Petition to: Stop ISP's from breaching customers privacy via advertising technologies.
www.badphorm.co.uk
Simply put, three of the UK's largest ISPs (Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk) have decided to sell your private browsing history to an advertising broker. Yes, the entire list of every web page you visit gets sent to Phorm (the broker) in real time, as you click, so they can send you 'targeted advertising'. Naturally the ISP's are not too keen on telling their users this, they'd much rather feed us all platitudes about how it'll help combat phishing and how the targeted adverts will be so much better than the random ones we see today. In fact, they didn't even announce it to the UK press, we had to find out about it from the New York Times!
BadPhorm - When good ISPs go bad!: Welcome
Anti Phorm League
I know that the government do not take notice of their petitions but it is good for bringing awareness to this, so please sign it, after all it takes 2 seconds. Petition to: Stop ISP's from breaching customers privacy via advertising technologies.