05/04 :  Richard Clayton on Phorm

   The egarly awaited analysis of the Phorm system by Dr Richard Clayton (University of Cambridge), treasurer of FIPR is now available online.

The less technical overview is given on the Light the Blue Touchpaper blog, while the detailed report (technical in nature) is posted here.

To quote Dr Clayton :

Phorm assumes that their system “anonymises” and therefore cannot possibly do anyone any harm; they assume that their processing is generic and so it cannot be interception; they assume that their business processes gives them the right to impersonate trusted websites and add tracking cookies under an assumed name; and they assume that if only people understood all the technical details they’d be happy.

Well now’s your chance to see all these technical details for yourself — I have, and I’m still not happy at all.

That pretty much says it all!


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