All this puts even more pressure on the Anti-Spyware Coalition, the Internet providers, the monitoring companies and other interested parties to look closely at these programs and try to reach a consensus about much Internet providers should be able to observe about their customers, what choices they give, and how they use the information. The freedom, the power; a non-neutral net and we are back to the days of gatekeepers guarding all information that comes in and out of the home. If I can catch you the people who street who install this shit, I would more than love to have the opportunity to redress and be compensated for all the frustration and hassles and lost computer time…. That is only because most people aren’t familiar with how the Phorm system works, and thus don’t yet appreciate the grave and unique threat it… and others like it, NebuAd for example… poses to the privacy of ISP customers. If you don’t understand that ISP resident systems like this snoop FAR more personal/sensitive/private data than conventional systems… that they do in fact store extremely detailed information about users’ browsing history and private lives… that they only store things in a pseudo-anonymous way that makes it far from impossible to link things to IP Addresses and/or other personally identifiable information… then I encourage you to do more homework. What if your government wishes to to take a look at all these records *en masse* — like the US gov’t did with the telecomm companies’ records of its subscribers in the name of the so-called *War on Terror*, and your surfing info becomes part of a *profile* upon which a numeric value is attached which indicates a *threat level*. More Spyware News
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