Users should understand what they are agreeing to

On their invitation page, BT did not expressly tell you that if you signed up to Webwise then almost everything you subsequently did on the Internet would be intercepted and read.

And nowhere on any of their Webwise pages did they check if it was you, one of your children, or a visitor to your house who had given consent.

Web Browsers already have anti-phishing functions

In 2008 Phorm was promoted as providing useful anti-Phishing functions to alert users when they are about to visit a website which might try to obtain their banking or credit card details fraudulently. But this feature is already in the latest free versions of the web browers used by over 98% of users.

Net Applications Market Share Statistics show that more than 98% of users have one of the following five browsers, all of which enable either offer phishing protection at installation or by default: