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| MarkH |
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 Registered Member #183 Joined: Fri Mar 14 2008, 11:31AMPosts: 6 | I don't know if this has been covered here or not, but I couldn't find anything using the search function, so... BT plan to hijack the customers browser to either invite them to the trial, or when the service goes live to offer them the chance to opt in or opt out. What is the legal standing of this if anybody knows? Surely if they are going to interrupt the browsing session of somebody and send them to a page they didn't intend to navigate to, this would be a violation of the law in some way? At the very least it is no better than what spyware and adware makers have been doing for years, so immoral at best, but I would have thought that it would come under the misuse of computers act or something similar. Is anybody here knowledgeable about such things who could offer an opinion? | ||
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| tb |
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 Registered Member #4 Joined: Fri Feb 22 2008, 01:27PMPosts: 9 | I guess they can get round this by picking people who haven't changed their default home page. Doing this will also help select the kind of passive sample that BT/Phorm are likely to want. | ||
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| MarkH |
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| Registered Member #183 Joined: Fri Mar 14 2008, 11:31AMPosts: 6 | tb wrote ... I guess they can get round this by picking people who haven't changed their default home page. Doing this will also help select the kind of passive sample that BT/Phorm are likely to want. ----------- Yeah, that would certainly help them promote how successful the trial uptake has been, but what about when it goes live? They are still intending to hijack the browser of all customers at that time surely? | ||
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| TheOtherSteve |
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| Registered Member #178 Joined: Thu Mar 13 2008, 03:55PMPosts: 9 | Still waiting for a reply from BT about this and other issues, but to my mind, since they will already have intercepted and redirected my HTTP or DNS, they are already in breach of RIPA if they don't get my consent first. | ||
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| Oblonsky |
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| Registered Member #132 Joined: Sat Mar 08 2008, 10:59AMPosts: 25 | Current system architecture described in detail in Tech Talk shows that they could do pretty much anything they wanted with your browsing stream, so hijack any page you go to. Its more than Phorm - its about carriers being carriers and respecting their powerful position and not spying on you. I seriously cant believe this whole thing is not illegal... | ||
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