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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.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7545766.stm
Note to privacy advocates: Good luck
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| There are plenty of legitimate concerns about the privacy intrusions of
| Google Maps' Street View, but one privacy group went a bit overboard with an
| attack on the search giant's all-seeing eye.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10009394-93.html
BT slams bandwidth brakes on all subscribers
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| BT is throttling all of its broadband customers' bandwidth at peak times, not
| just heavy users, according to independent monitoring data.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/07/bt_samknows_bandwidth_throttling/
Government brushes off the inconvenient truths:
BT injects life into its network
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| Insights from artificial life could soon be helping run BT's networks.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7547251.stm
Recent:
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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