web traffic phorm
Webwise re-Phormed with 'discovery engine'
News Burgess said the Phorm system ignores certain types of traffic data in the whitelisting process. Behavioural ad-serving company Phorm has announced a 'recommendation engine', which is... [03 Jun 2009]
Calls for gov't Phorm investigation rejected
News Phorm intercepts user data traffic to anonymously profile people and serve them adverts based on their web-browsing behaviour. Various organisations, including the Foundation for... [21 May 2009]
Inbox: Underground safe from mobile chatter
Comment Also, how can the data Phorm uses, be truly autonomous when it manages to direct adverts back to a certain user? The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has attacked deep packet... [23 Mar 2009]
Berners-Lee slams DPI: "We must not snoop on the internet"
News Targeted advertising services, such as Phorm in the UK, use DPI to monitor anonymised user behaviour and to target adverts at those users. Kent Ertugral, the chief executive of Phorm, said his company... [12 Mar 2009]
'Phorm's questions will be answered': EC
News Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton, who has undertaken a detailed technical analysis of Phorm's technology, said that while users could opt in, and certain websites could also opt in to serve the... [09 Mar 2009]
Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods
News It is the ISPs who are intercepting the traffic and giving it to Phorm - it is that that is illegal. Phorm - whose Webwise and Open Internet Exchange (OIX) technologies were used by BT... [11 Apr 2008]