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For those using Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk

by "Andy W." <gresd@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apr 7, 2008 at 05:44 PM

Here's a heads-up for those worried about their online privacy.


http://www.badphorm.co.uk/page.php?2

"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 
phi****ng 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!"



I bet it will spread to other ISPs in the near future.



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