Phorm, privacy, RIPA and interception

[Ian Batten]

On 29 Feb 08, at 1711, ken wrote:

> And they laughed at me for refusing to turn on cookies by default  
> for all these years!
>
> And for using different browsers for different kinds of website.
>
> Do I really want by teenage daughter to see the kind of ads that  
> would be generated in response to my own browsing?

A guy in the office has recently found his home machine afflicted  
with spyware.

He claims, and we have no reason to doubt him (really: we have no  
reason to doubt him) that the vast majority of his web-browsing that  
week concerned attempting to obtain cylinder head gaskets for Class  
08 and Class 11 shunters, at a rough guess (knowing where he  
volunteers) 12099, D3586 or D3022.

One wonders quite what targeted advertising will make of that!

ian