There is a silver lining to this cloud though. Publicity scandals like this and others like the Bank Charges publicity campaign do serve a very important purpose. I wouldn't like to guess how many 10s of thousands of people are more educated about their Rights and their Privacy as a result of such campaigns but I would be willing to bet it is a lot. The more scandals like this come out into the open the more empowered the general public become as a result which only serves to increase awareness in future situations. Hopefully long term the British people will wake up from their apathetic haze and start fighting to get the rights back which have been eroded away over the past 10 years.
Alexander Hanff
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"Earl of Northesk to ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are taking any action on the targeted advertising service offered by Phorm in the light of the questions about its legality under the Data Protection and Regulation of Investigatory Powers Acts. [DfBERR] HL2635"
http://www.publications.parliament.u...d/ldcumlst.htm
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3 Cheers for the Earl of Northesk. Who wrote to him?
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OK peeps, lets start the petition action:
Hi,
I'm sorry to inform you that your petition has been rejected
again.
Your petition was classed as being in the following categories:
* Duplicate - this is similar to and/or overlaps with an
existing petition or petitions
Further information: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ispphorm/
Your petition will now appear in the list of rejected
petitions.
Your petition reads:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to: 'Order the
Home Office to initiate criminal proceedings against BT for
their secret trial of Phorm in July 2007'
BT have admitted to running secret trials of Phorm technology
between 23 September and 6 October 2006 and July 2007. They
have further admitted to lying to the media, press and their
customers when questioned about this at the time.
In carrying out this trial without receiving consent from their
customers and the web sites they visited, BT appear to be in
criminal breach of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
2000; as this (as defined by the Act) is classified as an
Unlawful Interception.
The number of counts for this offence potentially runs into
millions dependent on how many communications they intercepted
over the period of the trials.
Whether the data was discarded or anonymised after the fact is
irrelevant and does not alter the fact that all these
interceptions were in fact Unlawful as defined by the Act.
-- the ePetitions team