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BT could face criminal case over Phorm trials

Prosecutors call in senior barrister The Crown Prosecution Service has revealed that it is working with a top barrister on a potential criminal case against BT over its secret trials of Phorm’s targeted advertising system.…

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Thursday, February 25th, 2010 P2P News No Comments

Home Office misses Brussels’ Phorm deadline

Guess who could pay The government missed its deadline to respond to European allegations arising from the Phorm controversy that UK internet users are not protected against commercial wiretapping.… ?

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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 P2P News No Comments

Britain in trouble over Phorm …

Britain is in legal trouble with the European Commission over advertising privacy pirate Phorm. Again. The EC is accusing the UK government of failing to protect citizens’ privacy, says the BBC , going on »»» It (the EC) said the government should have done more to guarantee online privacy when trials of a controversial ad-serving system were carried out in 2006.

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Monday, November 2nd, 2009 P2P News No Comments

Phorm takes a bullet for the advertising industry

Lightning conductor or plague carrier? You decide… The unlikely image of Phorm boss Kent Ertugrul as some kind of John the Baptist of behavioural targeting was conjured yesterday as advertising industry leaders pondered the future of online advertising.…

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Friday, October 9th, 2009 P2P News No Comments

Ex-BT tech chief quits Phorm

Didn’t really work out Stratis Scleparis, the former BT Retail chief technology officer who joined Phorm after overseeing secret trials of its web monitoring and profiling system, has quit the firm.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

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Friday, September 18th, 2009 P2P News No Comments