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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
Continue reading »BT gives Phorm the boot
Anyone who believes the net and people who fuel it aren’t major powers needs to think again. We’ve just heard British Telecomn, aka BT, has dumped privacy pirate Phorm, promoter of an application it calls Webwise, which collects user information online to be later reapplied in what’s euphemistically called behavioural targeting — highly intrusive targeted advertising based on what people are doing, and where they’re going, online. Webwise uses Deep Privacy Invasion , or Deep Packet Inspection, to siphon up data.
Continue reading »The BBC and Phorm – opting in or out?
“The news that BT, Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media are to sell their customers private browsing data to a firm called Phorm is attracting a lot of attention on the internet,” said Eclectica in March, particularly since Phorm, “before it renamed itself, was the notorious spyware firm 121Media. The deal will affect 10 million internet users.” It did indeed attract a lot of comment, and continues to do so. In contrast, “the BBC has not mentioned the scandal at all,” said the post, going on »»» Despite it being a far bigger story that will affect far more people than the recent data losses by government departments.
Continue reading »Phorm phans’ phoul play
Phorm phans have been engaging in phoul play, says anti-Phorm activist Alex Hanff. “They thought it would be appropriate to post links to gay porn videos on NoDPI once it became clear that we would not permit them to disrupt the forums,” he says. “The attack continued until almost 5am this morning.” NoDPI is Alex’s anti-Phorm web site on which he says »»» This evening our forums were placed under siege by a number of Phorm supporters – this is not the first time this has happened but tonight’s attack was the worst so far with the responsible parties posting pornographic video links into our forums and making personal attacks against members.
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