Become an armchair activist and protect your privacy online
I’ve realised that companies like BT that are willing to break the law on data protection—and allowed to get away with it, it seems, by our government—won’t ever change without a bloody revolution unlikely to ever materialise. So, if you want to make sure your privacy is protected online and you don’t get targeted advertising and detailed profiles built up based on the websites you visit, then you need to act.
tags: Big Brother, BT, cookies, data protection, extensions, Firefox, intrusion, Phorm, plugins, privacy, security, snooping, spying, spywareUK ISPs to spy on all web traffic to your home (if you let them get away with it)
If you’re a BT Broadband customer, watch out! The company intends to track the websites visited by 10,000 customers (eventually all of them) and hit them with targeted ads. This is to secure extra revenue, of course. Virgin Media and the (always dubious) Carphone Warehouse will be getting their act together later in the year to pull the same trick, which may be illegal under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). One expert believes it will only be legal is if ISPs obtain prior consent from the users they want to spy on.
tags: advertisements, BT, Carphone Warehouse, criminality, human rights, Internet, spying, Virgin Media
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