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Tories admit to Wiki-alteration
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| The Tories have admitted a member of staff altered a Wikipedia entry on the
| artist Titian after a row between Gordon Brown and David Cameron.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7884121.stm
EU threatens 'formal action' against UK.gov on Phorm
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| The European Commission has given its strongest signal yet that it will hold
| the UK government to account for its failure to act over BT and Phorm's
| secret and allegedly illegal internet monitoring trials in 2006 and 2007.
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| Telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding has again demanded answers from the UK
| as to why no enforcement action has been taken over the wiretapping and
| profiling of tens of thousands of BT broadband subscribers without any
| permission or notification. An unsatisfactory response could eventually land
| the government in the European Court of Justice.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/11/phorm_eu_action_threat/
Recent:
More execs quit Phorm
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| When half of Phorm's board quit earlier this month, it was spun as a strategy
| disagreement between the US and UK operations. But now the firm's
| London-based UK chief executive has quit too, along with its chief
| beancounter.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/18/phorm_departures/
Bad Phorm: UK Police give green light to Internet spying
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| The email is quoted by El Reg and states that "it has been decided that no
| Criminal Offence has been committed" and there was a "lack of Criminal Intent
| on behalf of BT and Phorm Inc in relation to the tests."
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| The best bit, though, is the revelation that BT customers would have given
| implied consent to being spied upon without their knowledge because the aim
| of the tests was to enhance product quality.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20759/1054/
Police close file on BT's trials
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| The City of London Police have said there will be no formal investigation of
| BT over its secret trials of an ad monitoring system.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7634210.stm
Phorm secretly tracked Americans too
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| of British Telecom customers as part of its grand scheme to target online ads
| from inside the world's ISPs, it was "operating a number of public commercial
| services" on various stateside networks.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/13/phorm_us_tests/
Spy fear over e-mail check plan
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| Plans to give local councils and other public bodies the power to monitor
| e-mail and internet traffic have been branded a "snoopers' charter".
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| The government wants to make it mandatory for phone and internet companies to
| store all information on personal web use for 12 months.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7557963.stm
Bad Phorm: EU demands UK Government response on intrusive web ad tracking
technology
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| Controversial behavioral advertising targeting outfit Phorm, whose Webwise ad
| technology monitors user browsing habits to serve appropriate advertising
| messages, might have dragged the UK Government into a slugfest with the
| European Union over a possible breach of strict Euro data laws...
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19884/1054/
Controversial Ad Network Caught Editing Wikipedia
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| Phorm has been beset by controversy for years over its business model and
| quietly-run trials on British Telecom's (BT) broadband service.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/04/08/controversial-ad-network-caught-editing-wikipedia
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