BT Silences Customers Over Phorm 196
An anonymous reader writes "The Register reports that BT, the UK's dominant telecom and internet service provider, has 'banned all future discussion of Phorm and its "WebWise" targeted advertising product on its customer forums, and deleted all past threads about the controversy dating back to February.' Phorm is a controversial opt-out system for delivering targeted advertising that intercepts traffic passing through an ISP in order to profile subscribers via an assigned unique ID based on their online activities. Subscribers can opt-out at the Webwise website but are opted-in again if the Phorm cookie is cleared. Firefox users can install Melvin Sage's Firephorm add-on to manage their interaction with Phorm and Webwise."
As a BT customer (Score:5, Funny)
I'm concerned about how they're hiding the history of ***** use. Deleting post on ***** is quite extreme, and who knows what they'll do next? Start censoring the use of ***** on their network?
Re:Heuristic: (Score:0, Funny)
If people still have to look up a word you use, even after you clearly define it, you shouldn't be saying it.
Re:As a BT customer (Score:5, Funny)