EC goes after Britain over Phorm DPI

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The European Commission has started legal action against Britain over online data pirate Phorm. The move follows complaints to the EC over how the behavioural advertising ’service’ was tested on the BT broadband network without the knowledge or permmission of users. “Last year Britain had said it was happy Phorm conformed to European data laws,” says the BBC , but, “the commission has said Phorm ‘intercepted’ user data without clear consent and the UK need to look again at its online privacy laws.” Technology used by Phorm is called DPI Deep Packet Inspection.