Bt webwise trial

Posts: 4, Message 3 of Posts: 26, We were told that would never happen. Please post a screen dump. Message 4 of Plusnet Staff. Posts: This is the first we've heard of this and it most definately shouldn't be happening. Thanks for letting us know and we'll start investigating this immediately.

I'll update you when I know more. In the meantime if you don't wish to connect over the RIN network you can change the DSL login in your modem or router to use the username plusdsl. Don't forget if you do do this to switch your router off power-off and on again to connect. Message 5 of Message 6 of Quote from: Peter In the meantime if you don't wish to connect over the RIN network you can change the DSL login in your modem or router to use the username plusdsl.

Why do you need to switch off the router - all I ever did is to disconnect from RIN, put in the new username and reconnect. Message 7 of Posts: 1, Thanks: 1. Oldjim - it'll be to cover the various different types of router out there. A reboot will definitely have the desired effect and it's probaly easier than trying to explain how to disconnect and reconnect on different devices.

I also know of at least 1 router that won't permanently commit the change to flash memory without it going through a complete reboot cycle. Volunteer Mod. That will be a sad day for BT. I guess it is also time to change telephone provider. I would suggest BT broadbad customers block webwise.

It looks as if they've redone things slightly so that blocking webwise. In the "help" bit, the chunk starting "Does remaining opted out depend on the continued presence of an opt-out cookie You will remain opted-out of the service as long as this domain remains blocked.

You can also use this option at any time before Webwise is available on your broadband connection, in which case you will not see the invitation page and will remain opted-out. BT has not explained how they intend to handle the 10, people required for the trial to work. Will they be inviting 10, people or will they invite as many as it takes to get 10, to sign up for the test? If anyone who takes the trouble to follow the links from the entirely misleading invitation page will be faced with this almost unreadable block of text - all of the other sections of BT's terms and conditions are written in short, clear paragraphs so this looks like a deliberate attempt to put people off the idea of actually reading what webwise does.

BT WebWise You will have the option to benefit from the BT Webwise service as detailed on www. The BT WebWise service must be switched on and off separately for each user of your service and on each browser and on each machine that you and other users of your service use to access the internet. You are responsible for making sure that all other users of your service know about the BT WebWise service and how to switch it on or off.

You and all other users of your service can switch the BT WebWise service on or off at any time by visiting www. You consent, and you agree to ensure that each user of the BT Webwise service consents, to all technical operations that we may carry out in connection with providing the BT WebWise service. These technical operations include, but are not limited to, diverting your or the other user's requests for web pages for a very short time in order to manage the BT WebWise service, as well as the operations described at www.

These may include the automatic scanning of web pages and web requests. If you or another user of the BT WebWise service switches the BT WebWise service off, you consent, and you agree to ensure that each user of the BT Webwise service consents to us carrying the technical operations necessary to prevent the BT WebWise service being provided to you or the other user of your broadband service.

In some circumstances, your election and that of other users of your service to switch the BT WebWise service on or off may, for technical reasons, be lost. If this happens you and other users of your service will be required to switch the BT WebWise service on or off again as the case may be. For full details of why this may happen, and what to do if it does, please visit www. We will endeavour to keep our list of suspected fraudulent or illegal sites as up to date as possible and to warn you about any sites on this list if you attempt to view them However, we do not accept any liability for any loss you incur in the event that the BT Webwise service fails to warn you about a fraudulent or illegal site.

Wonder how long before people realise they are being set up for a big fall when Phorm harvests their data and then returns them edited internet.. J Administrator Staff member. Good point Kits, hopefully they will do it the proper way and just invite 10, to see who does and does not adopt it. Concerned digital rights campaigners have fought a long and hard battle over Phorm, the technology used in BT Webwise. During this battle, it has become clear that there is no protection for UK citizens from corporations who wish to illegally intercept private communications for financial gain.

Today it might look like campaigners have lost the battle against Phorm, but without their hard work, BT may not have been forced to ask your permission to take part in this trial at all — it could have simply assumed it.

If you would like to know more about the legal ramifications of Phorm, read this legal analysis. If you would like to get active, visit dephormation. There are references to a review of Counter-terrorism and a Commision for Countering Extremism which will include Internet-related policies.

Yesterday we published a blog detailing the lack of privacy safeguards for Age Verification systems mandated in the Digital Economy Bill.

To this end the Digital Economy Bill creates a regulator that will seek to ensure that adult content websites will verify the age of users, or face monetary penalties, or in the case of overseas sites, ask payment providers such as VISA to refuse to process UK payments for non-compliant providers.

Sky Broadband have announced they will force web-filters on all customers, starting this week, unless the account-holder opts out. On Monday, David Cameron declared war on encryption as the latest knee-jerk reaction to the atrocities committed in Paris against Charlie Hebdo journalists. ORG are building tools to monitor the effects of default filtering in the UK Can you join us now to help keep this project going? Update: The opinion has now been published, with the Advocate General arguing that the Directive breaches the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Sky are the first Internet Service Provider to send us answers to all of our questions about their default filtering. On a cycling forum, members who are rightly worried that their forum may be blocked by default filters, Skydancer posted a response he was given by Diane Abbott: I do not believe that the arrangements to protect children from hard core porn online will affect a forum to discuss cycling!