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[News] [SOT] Government-BT Whorm Collusion May Have Broken Law Overseas, Too

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Phorm secretly tracked Americans too

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| of British Telecom customers as part of its grand scheme to target online ads 
| from inside the world's ISPs, it was "operating a number of public commercial 
| services" on various stateside networks.  
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/13/phorm_us_tests/

Spy fear over e-mail check plan

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| Plans to give local councils and other public bodies the power to monitor 
| e-mail and internet traffic have been branded a "snoopers' charter". 
| 
| The government wants to make it mandatory for phone and internet companies to 
| store all information on personal web use for 12 months.  
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7557963.stm

The governments go out of control.


Recent:

Home Office questioned over Phorm

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| Critics have asked why the Home Office has not intervened over secret Phorm
| trials BT conducted in 2006 and 2007.
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The EU has asked the UK government to clarify the situation.


Bad Phorm: EU demands UK Government response on intrusive web ad tracking
technology

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| Controversial behavioral advertising targeting outfit Phorm, whose Webwise ad
| technology monitors user browsing habits to serve appropriate advertising
| messages, might have dragged the UK Government into a slugfest with the
| European Union over a possible breach of strict Euro data laws...
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19884/1054/


Controversial Ad Network Caught Editing Wikipedia

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| Phorm has been beset by controversy for years over its business model and
| quietly-run trials on British Telecom's (BT) broadband service.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/04/08/controversial-ad-network-caught-editing-wikipedia
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