Bastards...

[mjt]

From Guardian Technolgy:
"BT has admitted carrying out secret trials on 18,000 user accounts with Phorm web traffic-tracking technology. The revelation, first detailed on The Register website, might lead to legal action by any of the users who can show their data was used. That is because it appears to breach the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000, which makes it an offence to intercept internet traffic without consent or a warrant.

Phorm is negotiating a deal with BT, Virgin Media and Talk Talk, the UK’s three largest ISPs with about 10m users. It would analyse web browsing and offer targeted adverts, as well as warning about phishing sites. Talk Talk has said it will make the service opt-in; BT has implied it will be opt-out. Virgin Media had no comment...

BT declined to comment beyond a prepared statement, saying: ‘The purpose of the test was to evaluate the functional and technical performance of the platform. It is important for BT to ensure that before any new technologies are deployed, they are robust and fit for purpose. No personally identifiable information was processed, stored or disclosed during this test.’”

Oh and the piece omits that the Guardian were going to be part of the Virgin/TalkTalk deal too but have recently pulled out...

[King Kong]

They should be prosecuted, afaik it is an offence to intercept individual's data in that way.

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[shadowman]

going by their shair prices they wont be doing much off anything any time soon they droped real fast haha