/ en-gb 2011-10-04T18:49:37+00:00 [email protected] hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.badphorm.co.uk/news.php?item.48.4 2011-10-04T18:49:37+00:00 Jim Murray CPS considering criminal charges against BT as a result of the Phorm trials. http://www.badphorm.co.uk/news.php?item.47.3 2011-10-04T18:49:37+00:00 Jim Murray From the BBC : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7936625.stmWeb founder's 'snooping' warningThe integrity of the internet is under threat if online "snooping" goes unchecked, one of the web's most respected figures has told Parliament. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, said browsing habits could now be monitored as if someone had put a "TV camera in one's room". http://www.badphorm.co.uk/news.php?item.46.4 2011-10-04T18:49:37+00:00 Jim Murray Information has reached BadPhorm that Virgin Media have a team of 20 people working on the deployment of the Phorm system. Most notably this includes 'Customer managers' (whatever they are!) and more worryingly, testers.It seems this project has been running since at least May 2008 so it's reasonable to assume that by now we're approaching either project completion or abandonment. The same source also indicates that even within Virgin Media there is considerable concern about the Phorm system, stating that there are "many negative perceptions of the system amongst customers and staff."Virgin Media are, as usual, saying nothing at all on the subject.Make of that what you will. http://www.badphorm.co.uk/news.php?item.45.4 2011-10-04T18:49:37+00:00 Jim Murray Stop Phorm petition hits 20k signatures http://www.badphorm.co.uk/news.php?item.44.1 2011-10-04T18:49:37+00:00 Jim Murray NoDPI 'No Clicks' Call http://www.badphorm.co.uk/news.php?item.43.3 2011-10-04T18:49:37+00:00 Jim Murray Steve Gibson & Leo Laporte discuss Phorm http://www.badphorm.co.uk/news.php?item.42.4 2011-10-04T18:49:37+00:00 Jim Murray The peaceful protest starts outside the Barbican at 10am until the AGM finishes. Guest speakers will be in attendance. This is to be followed by a protest outside BT Centre.Following the AGM, it's planned that files will be delivered to the Metropolitan Police at Charing Cross Metropolitan Police Station via Fleet Street and The Strand, along with a demand that a criminal investigation be opened into BT's secret trials of Phorm in 2006 and 2007. During the two tests, communications via as many as 120,000 broadband lines were intercepted, profiled and used to target advertising on websites.The protest is being organised by Alex hanff.The website for this event is here and will be updated as time progresses and details are finalised.Submitted by icsys http://www.badphorm.co.uk/news.php?item.41.4 2011-10-04T18:49:37+00:00 Jim Murray http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/charter-will-monitor-customers-web-surfing-to-target-ads/?ref=technologyCharter Will Monitor Customers’ Web Surfing to Target AdsBy Saul Hansell Charter Communications, the fourth-largest cable system in the United States, has started telling its high-speed Internet customers that it is going to keep track of every site they visit on the Web. The cable company will sell the data to a firm called NebuAd, which in turn will use it to show ads to Web-surfing Charter customers that are meant to be related to their interests. (Visit a knitting site yesterday and see yarn ads today.) Charter started sending letters out to several hundred thousand customers in four markets: Fort Worth, Tex.; San Luis Obispo, Calif.; Oxford, Mass.; and Newtown, Conn. (The letters were first reported by DSLreports.com.) Charter said it will start testing the system within 30 days and will make a decision whether to roll it out to its 2.8 million Internet customers a few months after that. Using data from Internet service providers for what the advertising people call behavioral targeting raises all kinds of questions about privacy, disclosure and who owns the information about where Internet users surf.Full article is here : http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/charter-will-monitor-customers-web-surfing-to-target-ads/?ref=technologySubmitted by AsteriskTheGaul http://www.badphorm.co.uk/news.php?item.40.4 2011-10-04T18:49:37+00:00 Jim Murray Virgin clarifies it's deal with Phorm