Phorm and deep packet inspection
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It's Carl Morris here. At the sandpit event I mentioned a company called Phorm in passing. Here's an intro.
We have become accustomed to near-invisible data collection of our online habits and the benefits it gives. One example from music is Last.FM's audio scrobbling technology which - if you opt in - will be routinely monitoring your iTunes plays. This builds up a huge aggregated library of useful music data, giving tailored recommendations. It's a fair swap right? Pretty neat.
Phorm's data collection is very different for two main reasons:
it works at the ISP stage, doing deep packet inspection - potentially collecting ...