-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Defend the Data Protection Act
,----[ Quote ]
| One of the most important and earliest pieces of legislation concerning
| digital information is the Data Protection Act (DPA). Clause 152 of the
| Coroners and Justice Bill, currently before Parliament, would effectively
| nullify the DPA, since it would allow Ministers to use information gathered
| for one purpose for another – one of the things the DPA is there to prevent.
`----
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/03/defend-data-protection-act.html
Recent:
Phorm Phorces Which? To Retract Critical Survey, Uses Defamation Threat
,----[ Quote ]
| The retraction came in so quick, we hadn’t even seen the original press
| release. Under legal pressure, consumer mag Which? on Wednesday hastily
| called back a survey it issued indicating public opposition to on-ISP
| behavioural ad targeter Phorm. Which? sent the following statement…
|
| “Urgent withdrawal of press release from Which? - Internet users say: don’t
| sell my surfing habits. Which? has received further information and
| representations from Phorm about the proposed Webwise service, and it has
| agreed to withdraw the above press release, issued under embargo on 24
| February 2008, while we consider them. Some of the information in the press
| release and related article is said to be inaccurate and as a consequence may
| be defamatory. You are strongly urged not to write an article based on the
| press release or the related article ‘Online privacy matters’ in Which?
| magazine.”
`----
http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-phorm-phorces-which-to-retract-critical-survey-uses-defamation-threat/
More execs quit Phorm
,----[ Quote ]
| 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.
`----
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/18/phorm_departures/
Bad Phorm: UK Police give green light to Internet spying
,----[ Quote ]
| 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."
|
| 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.
`----
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20759/1054/
Police close file on BT's trials
,----[ Quote ]
| The City of London Police have said there will be no formal investigation of
| BT over its secret trials of an ad monitoring system.
`----
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7634210.stm
Phorm secretly tracked Americans too
,----[ Quote ]
| 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.
`----
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/13/phorm_us_tests/
Spy fear over e-mail check plan
,----[ Quote ]
| Plans to give local councils and other public bodies the power to monitor
| e-mail and internet traffic have been branded a "snoopers' charter".
|
| The government wants to make it mandatory for phone and internet companies to
| store all information on personal web use for 12 months.
`----
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7557963.stm
Bad Phorm: EU demands UK Government response on intrusive web ad tracking
technology
,----[ Quote ]
| 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...
`----
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19884/1054/
Controversial Ad Network Caught Editing Wikipedia
,----[ Quote ]
| Phorm has been beset by controversy for years over its business model and
| quietly-run trials on British Telecom's (BT) broadband service.
`----
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/04/08/controversial-ad-network-caught-editing-wikipedia
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAkmt6AQACgkQU4xAY3RXLo6saACfWlnLqhR0kDqIzdlegBDbKVrB
F6oAniRaeCM8dID3wQI6bVRB7KNcw2oP
=oAbR
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
