British Firm Phorm Trudges Through the Deep Packet Storm: “Deep packet inspection — the secret harvesting of granular details about individual internet activity so companies can make better guesses about what to sell you — has been facing a slow death in the U.S. But British firm Phorm, which provides a similar service abroad, has so far managed to steer through the death-inducing scrutiny and negative press that has enveloped NebuAd.

(Via Wired News.)