Originally Posted by BBC News

BT should face prosecution for its "illegal" trials of a controversial ad-serving technology, a leading computer security researcher has said.

Dr Richard Clayton at the University of Cambridge made his comments after reviewing a leaked BT internal report.

The document reveals details of a 2006 BT trial with the Phorm system, which matches adverts to users' web habits

"It's against the law of the land, we must now expect to see a prosecution," he told BBC News.

But BT plans to push ahead with a further trial of the technology later this summer, the BBC has learnt.

"We have not announced a date yet; we are still planning - it will be quite soon," a spokesperson told BBC News.

Revelations about earlier trials have prompted some customers to organise protests in London to coincide with BT's AGM on 16 July.

Originally Posted by SMHarman (Post 34568544)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/ > scroll down. At least it is linked from the front page today.
Top technology article today.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7438578.stm
BT should face prosecution for its "illegal" trials of a controversial ad-serving technology, a leading computer security researcher has said.

Originally Posted by R Jones (Post 34568545)

At last - the leaked trial document got to the mainstream media
BBC Technology - you just beat me to it. I was visiting the page to see if it was there, if not to send them details.
And I've dugged it/digged it/stuck a spade in it/whatever.

I've also sent that link to the Today programme.

Originally Posted by BetBlowWhistler (Post 34568568)

Can someone help me out here.

I've been trying to search on Digg for the article that Alex wrote..

"http://digg.com/tech_news/BT_commited_113_million_allegedly_illegal_acts_in_ 8_days"

by using various search terms. Nothing, nada. It says something about trying to search in 'upcoming stories' but that doesn't work either.

How would I find this without the direct link?

Originally Posted by Frank Rizzo (Post 34568570)

It got buried.

You need to check the box Include Buried Stories.

Originally Posted by Frank Rizzo (Post 34568593)

Try this search term:

It searches in All sections, all area, search-buried, and ranks by number of diggs.

http://digg.com/search?s=Phorm&submi...=all&sort=most

As for it being buried I think we must have tripped one of the spam traps. Digg won't give reasons why or if individuals buried it, or if it is just temporarily suspended and will be released again.

Originally Posted by Frank Rizzo (Post 34568593)

Try this search term:

It searches in All sections, all area, search-buried, and ranks by number of diggs.

http://digg.com/search?s=Phorm&submi...=all&sort=most

As for it being buried I think we must have tripped one of the spam traps. Digg won't give reasons why or if individuals buried it, or if it is just temporarily suspended and will be released again.

Originally Posted by Frank Rizzo (Post 34568377)

digg: I suspect they have some kind of sandboxing going on to prevent spammers manipulating the site.

unfortunately it looks as if rapid digging emanating from one link source (say nodpi or here) incurs a penalty.

Far better to post a link to the digg article from many different sites rather than dozens here clicking the same link and then digging.

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Further to the above just found some more suggestions:

* Mail users the link and get them to dig it via the mail link
* Locate the story from the Digg/Upcoming queue and tell people to digg it from there.
* On your page use the official "Digg This" icon.

Originally Posted by Wildie (Post 34568388)

Also be wise to not click but copy and paste in the bar.