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If you’re interested in online privacy issues, you may have read about Phorm<\/a>, the company that gets your web usage data from ISPs in order to show you contextual advertising.<\/p>\n

Recently I’ve been contributing to a blog called Future Music Lab<\/a> along with some colleagues from the music, media and online industries. One of my posts was an intro to Phorm<\/a> as I understood it.<\/p>\n

I then received an email from Benjamin Usher of the Phorm Communications Team<\/a>, essentially correcting me on three points I’d made.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting that they seem to be monitoring blog posts so closely. I’m not known as a privacy champion or anything, but clearly they felt the need to salvage some reputation by putting me straight. The email looks very “boilerplate” with what look like well-rehearsed rebuttals – so I don’t know if these are old arguments. I still have concerns about Phorm though and the email didn’t reassure me enough to welcome them.<\/p>\n

You can comment directly here, on Future Music Lab<\/a>, or on your own blog.<\/p>\n

Make sure you republish anything that you get via email. Let’s have some open scrutiny.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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