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Retentions - 0800 052 0870 seemed to be aware of Phorm when i rang them the other day.
Hardly surprising, probably had so many customers ringing up complaining that they had to brief that department, albeit just a little bit. They certainly played it right down when I spoke to them about it. 'Honest guv, you aint got nothing to worry about.'
Thing is, you just cant polish a turd, no matter how hard you try.
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BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7280791.stm
About freakydeeky time.
Good old beeb, always the last to cover the story lol |
I am not happy that the tone of this BBC article is "Phorm is pretty harmless really". I trust the BBC more than any other outlet on the web to both report the news accurately and investigate issues thoroughly, and they appear to have failed miserably on both counts here. No mention of Kent Erturgal's history in spyware, no mention of overseas servers, no mention of the fact that information will almost certainly still be gathered even if people "opt out" and a misleading headline that implies that Privacy International endorses the Phorm system, when in fact, at least in it's present form of "opt out", they expressly remain opposed to it. It's not even as if the BBC would profit from this system going ahead, because UK-resident users of their services don't get served adverts anyway, so what the hell is going on?