Rights Groups Speak Out Against Phorm, UK Comm. Database

MJackson writes "The Open Rights Group (ORG) has issued a public letter to the Chief Privacy Officers (or the nearest equivalent) for seven of the world's largest website giants (including Microsoft and Google), asking them to boycott Phorm. The controversial Phorm system works with broadband ISPs to monitor what websites you visit for use in targeted advertising campaigns. Meanwhile, the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust has issued a new report slamming the UK government's plans for a Communications Database. This would be designed to intercept and log every UK ISP user's e-mail headers, website accesses and telephone history. The report warns that the public are often, 'neither served nor protected by the increasingly complex and intrusive holdings of personal information invading every aspect of our lives.'"

Re:this won't win me many friends....

[u38cg]

What do guns have to do with my network connection? Should I camp out by my firewall and shoot dropped packets, the varmints?

Re:this won't win me many friends....

[geekgirlandrea]

Well, a GE Minigun [wikipedia.org] is a pretty efficient way to mass-uninstall Windows from a server farm. :)