Hand over your privacy me hearties!

I was reading Phorm’s website this weekend and notice that they have started a new website called Stop Phoul Play(did you see what they did there?).  This is to respond to the various critics to their software, which I guess includes me. This site describes it’s critics as “Privacy Pirates” and attempts to address the various criticisms of it’s software. Phorm of course has every right to defend it’s position and to emphasise their privacy policy and correct any misconceptions about it’s system, but by using the term privacy pirate it shows a lack of willingness to engage with it’s critics. What the hell is a privacy pirate anyway? do we set sail upon the wild piva-sea and attack poor impoverishes multi billion pound multinationals armed only with our sharp tongues and steely gazes? ”Prepare to be boarded me hearties and have your encryption keys at the ready”. Perhaps we should retaliate and compare Phorm to the East India Company, profiteering from out personal data, trading our lives to the highest bidder, the data slavers of  world wide web.

So given the choice I think I would choose to be the Captain Jack Black of the datashpere every time.

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