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BT Will ‘Definitely’ Go Live With Phorm This Year, Phorm Says
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| After BT (NYSE: BT) concluded its much-delayed trial of Phorm‘s controversial
| ISP-based behavioural ad targeting technology in December, the advertising
| company is trying to keep those precious few positive moments up in the
| spotlight.
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| [...]
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| Despite European Commission concern, the UK government ruled Phorm legal in
| September, though some privacy advocates keep pointing to Phorm’s previous
| incarnation, 121media, as a maker of software classed as spyware. BT, if it
| goes ahead, will launch the product as BT Webwise.
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http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-bt-will-definitely-go-live-with-phorm-this-year-phorm-says/
Wacky Jacqui Smith says whole country crusading against CCTV
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| Home Secretary Wacky Jacqui Smith has conceded that there is zero support for
| CCTV cameras in UK communities. In a shock letter to the Guardian, she claims
| massed phalanxes of irate burghers are poised to join a Tory march on
| Whitehall to overthrow the hated devices.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/10/smith_cctv_shock/
Recent:
Digital Britain: A tax, a quango and ISP snooping
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| Did anyone expect more from Stephen Carter CBE? The former Ofcom boss and
| No.10 strategy chief (sic) has spent his career moving between the world of
| advertising and public relations, quangos and party. So it's no surprise that
| the "vision thing" involves a tax, a quango and a burden by private parties
| to snoop on the public. It's an administrator's answer.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/29/digital_britain_tax_quango_and_enforcement/
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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