You may have read in the press the shocking invasion of privacy tactics currently being employed by some of the biggest ISPs in the industry.

It has recently been confirmed that BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk have been involved in secret browsing habit trials with a company called Phorm (in BTs case this has been going on for over 12 months). These companies have been allowing Phorm (an advertising broker) to track the web-browsing history of their customers - details of which are subsequently being sold to advertisers, allowing them to target their ads to to the unwitting end-users.

Whilst it may seem unlikely, we can confirm that the entire list of every web page visited by every user is sent to Phorm in "real time" as links are clicked, in order that they can employ 'targeted advertising' tactics.

Naturally these ISP's are not too keen on admitting this breach of confidentiality - instead they prefer to feed their "valued" customers platitudes of the various benefits - how it'll help combat phishing, how the targeted adverts will be so much better than the random ones we all see today etc. etc.!!!

Rumours are that Phorm are working with many more ISPs in the UK, in particular the larger ISPs who will be using this as a highly lucrative revenue stream. We consider these tactics to be simply wrong and nothing short of a breach of trust by companies who's interest is purely financial, and who appear to have a complete disregard of their Customers privacy.

We would like to assure you we are not, have not and will not work with Phorm or any similar organisation who blatantly invade the privacy of unwitting customers.

For those of you with friends, relatives or colleagues connected to the internet with one of the above ISPs, it may be worth letting them know that 'Big-Brother' really is watching them and trustworthy ISPs (that would be us) really do exist !