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Originally Posted by AlexanderHanff
OK, I just got off the phone with Catie MacDonald from the ICO press office and the findings are frankly shocking.
Apparently ICO are -not- investigating Phorm at all, they are reviewing documents they asked Phorm to send them but it was reiterated over and over again that there is definitely no official investigation by ICO with regards to Phorm.
Furthermore, there is no investigation with regards the BT secret trials of 2006 and 2007 in any capacity whatsoever.
I asked why ICO are not investigating the BT and it was just reiterated that the only thing regarding the Phorm technology that ICO are doing is reviewing documents requested from Phorm.
I just had a call back from ICO and was told that RIPA is nothing to do with ICO and falls under the umbrella of the Home Office.
This is shocking news given the reports in the press over the past month claiming ICO are investigating. They were not very happy to talk to me at ICO either and stated I was not permitted to quote them and would not even give me a name until I first gave them my name, address and phone number. This was despite me explaining that I am a student at University studying privacy issues as part of my Sociology major (which I can prove with half a dozen academic papers I have written over the past 15 months on privacy issues).
Alexander Hanff
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Alexander, it sounds like you need to pass this info on to chris at Elreg, and even charles if you must, they are far better placed to get the official quotes you have been talking about.
perhaps even the BBC and C4 might be useful in this, but chris is the first port of call as he's done so much in all this already. send him an email, he will know you with your crime No. and injunction text im sure, if he's not already read your post here
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