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PI: Privacy International Releases its 2008 Annual Report
http://www.badphorm.co.uk/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?9533
PI site (which has been remarkably quiet this year) including
Some of the coverage was certainly negative, particularly when two PI staff members were implicated in the deployment of the controversial Phorm advertising service. Phorm named PI as endorsers of the service even though Privacy International had not officially engaged with Phorm, and it took a while to correct this error.
]]>felixcatuk<[email protected]>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:24:45 +0000http://www.badphorm.co.uk/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?9533Merry Christmas!
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And a happy New Year.]]>felixcatuk<[email protected]>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:36:20 +0000http://www.badphorm.co.uk/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?9529Guardian: Tech Weekly: review of 2008
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Tech Weekly: review of 2008 Coverage starts at 19:48 ]]>felixcatuk<[email protected]>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:01:30 +0000http://www.badphorm.co.uk/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?9528Facebook users privacy
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BT has over 500,000 customers who use facebook - its the latest craze, and facebook is famous for when the users put up the pressure they react -
so how about - this for a group
"We do not want our profiles, written content viewable by BT and phorm, when we joined facebook we did not do so with the fact that by simply browsing our profiles BT users were feeding a third party website specific details written on our profiles to be used for advertising! we dont even get a penny from that advertising so why should our lives be sent via third parties to some company?"
Probably needs to be written much better too but it sounds good.
Get 2 or 3 million users to sign up to that group and you might well have a pressure group and if facebook ended up blocking BT the phorm trial would be a fiasco and end up all over the news - which in turn would give other companies enough warning to steer clear of it.
Of course in the real world stuff like that rarely works, but if you do get enough people it might just throw phorm right into the public eye on mainstream news channels.]]>blackbeard<[email protected]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:17:03 +0000http://www.badphorm.co.uk/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?9525phorm a designers nightmare.
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Log users real details whenever they sign up to any website which has a confirm details page Log what a user bought, where they bought it and how they paid - when it logs the checkout page of any site which has a print page to confirm order
Im not a solicitor, but any idiot knows thats bound to breach the data protection act all by itself.
[Mod edit - made a clicky] ]]>blackbeard<[email protected]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:57:39 +0000http://www.badphorm.co.uk/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?9523TelecomTV:Big Brother is as Big Brother does. Phorm makes its ex-CEO an unperson
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Deserves an award for the best headline yet conceived in this saga;
It's software has been called "Orwellian" and now Phorm, the controversial behavioural targeting company that tracks users online habits, has adopted the methods of the "Ministry of Truth" and airbrushed its newly-resigned CEO out of corporate history.
]]>felixcatuk<[email protected]>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:51:19 +0000http://www.badphorm.co.uk/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?9522ZDNet: Deep packet inspection takes another hit as Phorm execs leave
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Deep packet inspection takes another hit as Phorm execs leave
The future isn’t looking too bright for those in the business of Deep Packet Inspection, notably a company called Phorm where leadership has been eroding this month.
]]>felixcatuk<[email protected]>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:49:02 +0000http://www.badphorm.co.uk/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?9517Wired: ISP Ad Snooper Phorm Loses Top Execs
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ISP Ad Snooper Phorm Loses Top Execs
Phorm, the controversial U.K. concern that wants to spy on ISP customers in order to serve up highly targeted ads, lost two top executives Wednesday. The news adds to the woes that have struck the companies that want to bake advertising surveillance into the net's infrastructure. Several U.K. ISPs retreated from Phorm, after citizens got wind of the company and raised privacy objections.
Excellent article.
I'll let you read the last paragraph... very entertaining and seasonal. ]]>felixcatuk<[email protected]>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:47:12 +0000http://www.badphorm.co.uk/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?9516