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Comment Re:screw the paperwork (Score 1) 98

Blacklisting Phorm's IPs will serve no purpose. The visits you see to your web sites will have the IPs of the ISP customers, Phorm then intercept these communications and copy the page "in transit". The only way to guarantee that your site will not be compromised by Phorm is to block all the IPs registered to the various ISPs that decide to deploy Phorm's technology.

The only other option is to use the Opt-Out mechanism that Amazon, WikiMedia and others have used; and then trust Phorm to honour that request.

Alexander Hanff

Comment NoDPI complaint to the Financial Services Authorit (Score 1) 98

Just a quick update for everyone. Today we have sent a letter of complaint to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) that Phorm's statement to markets this week that government regulators and departments support their technology as fully compliant with UK law - is misleading and possibly fraudulant.

I have added a link and summary to my firehose here:

http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=4200429

you can find the original article here:

https://nodpi.org/2009/04/17/phorm-protests-berr-says-we-are-fully-compliant/

Alexander Hanff

Comment Re:WTF is Phorm? (Score 4, Informative) 98

If you would like more information on Phorm/WebWise, NoDPI.Org has been leading the campaign against them for the past 14 months (and were co-signatories to the Open Letter). We have worked on a number of iniatives including organising the House of Lords Round Table Event which Sir Tim Berners-Lee attended on the 11th March this year. We plan to take the lobby all the way to Brussels and the campaign has already led the European Commission to initiate legal proceedings against the UK Government after they failed to enforce EU Privacy Directives with regards to Phorm's covert trials with BT Group in 2006/2007. I also filed a criminal case with the police in July last year, which they closed stating that there was no criminal intent and it was not in the public interest. As a result of this I was forced to contact the Director of Public Prosecutions and bypass the police entirely - the Crown Prosecution Service are now investigating the matter and will make a decision on whether or not to prosecute. The covert trials in 2006 alone intercepted over 130 million communications over less than 2 weeks and modified those communications to insert Javascript into web pages which passed through their systems (then known as PageSense). I leaked an internal BT report which goes into a great deal of detail about the 2006 trials to WikiLeaks last summer and I also wrote my undergraduate dissertation on the legal implications of the same covert trials.

You can find the dissertation here: https://nodpi.org/documents/phorm_paper.pdf
You can find the leaked report here: https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/Image:BT_Report.pdf
And you can catch up on the entire scandal on our blog here: https://nodpi.org/

Hope that clarifies things for those who are not aware of who/what Phorm/WebWise are/is.

Alexander Hanff

Comment Write to your MP (Score 1) 113

Good to see Slashdot has finally picked this up. I sent them the press release about the event last week and as one of the organisers of the event and founder of NoDPI.Org I am pleased to say the event went incredibly well and the press coverage has been amazing. Now would be a good time for people in the UK to write to their MP's directly to discuss the event and make it clear to them that you expect them to research the issue for the purpose of parliamentary debate or you will not be voting for them in the next election. Alexander Hanff NoDPI.Org
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Data Retention Proven to Change Citizen Behavior 261

G'Quann writes "A new survey shows that data retention laws indeed do influence the behavior of citizens (at least in Germany). 11% had already abstained from using phone, cell phone or e-mail in certain occasions and 52% would not use phone or e-mail for confidential contacts. This is the perfect argument against the standard 'I have nothing to hide' argumentation. Surveillance is not only bad because someone might discover some embarrassment. It changes people. 11% at least."

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