View the cache option offered by your favourite search engine. Webwise / Phorm claim that they respect the Copyright of popular search engines and will only profile the search query used, not the content delivered from search engine domains.Thank you for clicking the link to see what the future holds.
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Copyright Protection, Privacy Protection
Broadband suppliers are planning to sell the content of this site without paying for copyright.
They also plan to view everything you view online and sell your information.
If you are with BT, Carphone Warehouse, Opal, TalkTalk or VirginMedia when this happens, all you will see is the following:
Your Internet Service Provider is planning to use the content of this site to make money without paying the Copyright Owner the required Royalty. Until such time as they pay royalties or refraign from infringing copyright, you are no longer be able to access this site through their service.
Your ISP is also invading your privacy by copying everything you see and selling that information so that the ISP can earn money from showing you advertisements. The webmaster has no intention of allowing this site to be part of a process which infringes multiple UK and EU laws.
Web sites are Copyright content. Copying any web content without permission from the copyright owner is against the permitted use under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and, specifically, read #4 at Top 10 Copyright Myths page from UK Copyright Service – While work published on the Internet may be publicly accessible, it is certainly not in the public domain.
Your ISP is viewing, copying and analysing web pages, using DNS redirection to modify the content returned to you. Tiscali use Barefruit to redirect your error requests to an advert filled portal. BT use Phorm to forge cookies, ignore copyright, sell the content of pages to advertisers, wrongly claiming that everything they copy off the internet is already in the public domain. Wrong! – it is protected from such use by copyright.
Every page you visit helps to build a profile of your interests and purchasing power. You can opt-in to giving away your internet communications. The copyright owner can only withdraw permission by refusing you any right of access - the opposite of making information publically accessible through publishing on the Internet.
If you are with a broadband supplier who is tracking your every page, every page you request is being used to profile you. Currently, there is no way that you can opt-out of this process, you can only opt-out of relevant ads.
While you wait to transfer to a broadband supplier who respects your privacy and does not track your web surfing, you can minimise which pages are used to profile you.
View the cache option offered by your favourite search engine. Webwise / Phorm claim that they respect the Copyright of popular search engines and will only profile the search query used, not the content delivered from search engine domains.
You will only see this profile blocking, copyright protecting page when visiting the site on its hosting server.
Contact your broadband supplier and request that none of your internet traffic passes through any of the equipment installed in the network. This includes the equipment which tests for the Webwise cookies plus the forged cookies that have been created in the name of all the websites you have visited and which redirects server error responses (like this page, which you will never see) to a screen full of adverts.
Once they have confirmed that your IP Address has been removed from those IP addresses which are being profiled, contact the webmaster by phone on 0844 884 3342 and leave a voicemail with information about your static IP address and the name of your broadband supplier so that the webmaster can update the IP address blocking list to exclude your IP address.
The only way to 100% block being profiled is to change to a broadband supplier that respects your privacy and does not sell your personal surfing data so that they can earn a few pennies for every advert you see.
By blocking the domains webwise.bt.com, www.webwise.net, webwise.net and a.webwise.net in your computer's host file by redirecting to 127.0.0.1 you will avoid any Webwise cookies being set by sites carrying advertisements - unfortunately, if your broadband supplier is hosting the Webwise programs within its network, this will prevent you from being able to access the internet (www.webwise.net and webwise.bt.com are some of the forged redirects that are performed on every web page request from your browser).
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Sign the internet privacy petition at petitions.number10.gov.uk/dataprofiling/, requesting: "We petition the Prime Minister to investigate the Phorm technology and if found to breach UK or European privacy laws then ban all ISP's from adopting it's use. Additionally the privacy laws should be reviewed to cover any future technologies such as Phorm".
The imminent trial by BT and TalkTalk / Opal is only expected to last a few weeks. Based on the success of this trial, BT and other UK ISPs are planning to roll out the behavioural targeted profiling system to all their customers by the end of 2008 so that over 70% of the UK Internet uses will be having ALL their Internet traffic between their browser and websites monitored.
UPDATE: BT ran their trail from 30 September 2008 to 10 December 2009. Phorm claim that the system is due to go live for all customers during the first half of 2009.
Yes. The profiler systems can see and track every page you request. It will know with whom you bank and which page you requested. The only thing that won't be profiled is the encrypted content on the page.
Use the search engines to find information on phorm, bt webwise, oix, behavioural targeted marketing (bt marketing), NebuAd, FairEagle, FrontPorch, Adzila, Research Science, SpinVox, KindSight. You will find both sides of the argument together with some misinformation.
Beware PR spin.
There are two parts to the Webwise process. Much of the positive press you will read reports only the process after the broadband network has made a copy of the traffic from your browser to the internet, written and read cookies to your computer disk to discover whether you have opt-in or -out cookies – you can't opt-out of having your computer accessed and updated before you visit the Internet. It is known that there are 3 or 4 redirects during this phrase to add forged cookies to your system. Traceroutes have shown 6 redirects which is more than the number so far explained.
The traffic from the web server to your browser is also intercepted to create your profile. 1% of all internet traffic is currently showing that what the visitor sees is not the same content as that written by the webmaster – anything can be added to the site and you won't know that what you see is no longer the real website.
Yes.
Many ISPs are already offering voice recognition which converts voice to text: talk and update your blog; cell / mobile phones can convert voice/voicemail to SMS text. The next stage in the development of this software is to use the words spoken to create a profile that will be used to offer you targeted adverts.
It may no longer be 1984. Big Brother really is watching you. The choice is now. Protect your future.
For more information:
To continue seeing the Internet, free from 'Big Brother', move to a spyware/adware free ISP: there is a list of UK ISPs and their current attitude towards respecting your privacy discussed in the forum on www.badphorm.co.uk. Protect your mobile and landline broadband data.