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 Registered Member #281 Joined: Wed Apr 02 2008, 10:59PMPosts: 620 | On 6 July 2009, just before the beginning of the investigation on Internet privacy by UK MPs and peers of the All Party Parliamentary Communications Group, the largest UK ISP British Telecom (BT) has announced it would not roll out Phorm's web monitoring and profiling system, Webwise, in its network. Right after BT made this announcement, claiming that for the next three years it needed to focus on network upgrades, other two large ISPs in UK,Virgin Media and TalkTalk, declared they would not launch the system in the near future either. The three ISPs signed an agreement with Phorm in February 2008 but the system was fiercely criticized both by privacy campaigners and regulators. Source: Phorm given up by UK ISPs EDRi-gram - Number 7.14, 15 July 2009 About: European Digital Rights was founded in June 2002. Currently 29 privacy and civil rights organisations have EDRI membership. They are based or have offices in 18 different countries in Europe. Members of European Digital Rights have joined forces to defend civil rights in the information society. The need for cooperation among organizations active in Europe is increasing as more regulation regarding the internet, copyright and privacy is originating from European institutions, or from International institutions with strong impact in Europe. | ||
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