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[News] Europe, Like China, Wants to Violate Privacy Rights

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EU data protection authority confirms privacy breach in "Telecoms Package"

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| The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) released his opinion on the 
| current state of the Telecoms Package. His views on the ePrivacy directive 
| confirms La Quadrature's analysis: If nothing is done, article 6.6 will allow 
| any company to collect and process traffic data from any Internet user, for 
| an undetermined period of time. This disposition is harmful and unacceptable. 
| MEPs must react by strongly reaffirming citizens' right to privacy and the 
| interests of society as a whole during the second reading of the package.      
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http://www.laquadrature.net/en/eu-data-protection-authority-confirms-privacy-breach-telecoms-package

China's anti-censor software pimps user data

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| As well as selling aggregate usage data, software developers were also 
| offering to sell detailed surfing histories of individual surfers for a fee, 
| something that poses an even greater privacy risk, according to an analysis 
| by Hal Roberts from The Berkman Center for Internet Society at Harvard 
| University.    
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/21/china_censorship_tools_data_sale/


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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