withoutmercyuk (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

ya but we dont get to roam thru their lives and THEY are the cultish secret cretins who are giving medical, census, movement data to the American Govt who are behaving like the mean something outside their turf. This is an outrageous betrayal to the British people, along with these new ID cards - because 'we fear the bogey man'. WTF its betrayal pure and simple. Neocon labour neoconservative, same BS different, assholes.

bobdriver1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Phorm is the internet turning dark and sinister.

bobdriver1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Unfortunately for me I worked for BT for 8 years, in my veiw there is no such thing as privacy anymore without privacy you lose a certain amount of control, which a dark sinister company like bt is quite happy to take from you. There are many other internet providers and it is only a phonecall away to change your provider. Give yourself piece of mind. lets face it as long as you pay and use the internet they are getting paid, why do we need the internet.

leapoffaith20 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Bastards. Sometimes murder is justified.

merlyn2003 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

GCHQ must be hovering in the background... This software is brilliant for monitoring everyone, globaly.If you opt out you will draw attention!

huberthuzzah (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

How much will BT Virgin or Carphone Warehouse be paying me for my datastream? Without my data Phorm does not work. Withouth my datastream Phorm is not going to earn £85million for BT alone.Make me an offer. I start at 1p a byte.

alextravel (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Instead it has turned into a watershed: a clear rejection of the strategy of forcing the telecommunications industry to act as a private police force for entertainment lobby — and a positive endorsement of the Net's free flow of information, and a positive agenda for copyright reform. It seems like the music industry will remain the only group to believe that spying, filtering and punishing your own customers is a good idea: either for business, or for society as a whole.

alextravel (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Nice video.The Electronic Freedom Foundation said on their website:The entertainment industry originally intended the Bono Report on the Cultural Industries to be a stalking horse for their new approach, encouraging MEPs to insert language that would show support for copyright extension, banning Net users, and censoring the Net in the interests of rights holders.

mikeymikey0000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It's not just Phorm & corprtns, it's the police and gov., tooh ttp : // tinyurl dot com/6pkfff1. "Traffic data constitutes a near complete map of private life...2. "NCIS has been guilty of serial spin-doctoring. At the same time they were lobbying in secret to warehouse the entire population's traffic data, the Director of NCIS wrote that 'conspiracy theorists must not be allowed to get away with the ridiculous notion that law enforcement would or even could monitor all emails'"

mikeymikey0000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

From the same article whose link is given below:"Something enormous and revolutionary is about to happen to us. We are giving the most precious part of ourselves to the government, allowing it complete freedom to roam through our privacy. And it's not just to this government, but to the government of the future, the nature of which we cannot possibly know...