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Originally Posted by labougie
Apologies if this is a repost, but when I asked VM exactly where in their small print I had authorised them to use my usage data as part of their revenue stream, they pointed me to:
Section 'G: Your details and how we look after them' of your terms and conditions which states:
"By having the services we provide installed in your home and/or by using them you are giving us your consent to use your personal information together with other information for the purposes of providing you with our services, service information and updates, administration, credit scoring, customer services, training, tracking use of our services (including processing call, usage, billing, viewing and interactive data), profiling your usage and purchasing preferences for so long as you are a customer and for as long as is necessary for these specified purposes after you terminate your services. We may occasionally use third parties to process your personal information in
the ways outlined above. These third parties are permitted to use the data only in accordance with our instructions."
Doesn't it seem from this that they've covered themselves and that we've all signed up to be Phormed?
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No because they are not permitted to violate criminal law in order to do any of that stuff, irrespective of whether they put them in the terms or not.
If your ISP included terms that they could come into your house and smash the place up (criminal damage) it does not mean they can do it, as it effects your statutory rights in an adverse way. And as we
keep saying consent is required from -all parties- not just you.
Alexander Hanff