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sandinista
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Comment No. 1024974
April 2 11:43
Re
Stratis Scleparis.
Not only did he move to Phorm after conducting the BT trial he also (this is from Phorms own site)
"held senior technology management roles with leading firms Orange UK plc (formerly Freeserve/Wanadoo), AOL Europe and the BBC."
That probably explains why the BBC have mostly just used Phorms publicity statements instead of carrying out real journalism.
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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler
Interesting point in the comments there:
Conspiracy theories, doncha just love 'em...  |
while i dont put that Conspiracy label on any of this,not even jokingly as it belittles the real seriousness of the subject matter.
it does yet again, come back to my view that 'people
are the Company'
a person sits down and choses to instigate this practice or idea.
and he does seem to like this interception cashcow idea doesnt he, after all it gets installed in some form or other were ever he goes.
did anyone look at AOL for any of this type of interception?.....
are they still operating on the exC&W/exTW/exNTL/VM cable with that re-badged cable modem, and if so, will they also be effected by any Phorm DPI interception kit?.
lets not forget the mobile phorm story in all this ,here...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/12/mobile_phom/
"
Qualcomm buys into Phorm-alike firm
Data gathering on the hoof
By
Bill Ray →
More by this author
Published Wednesday 12th March 2008 13:14 GMT
The ad-fatigued may groan at the news that Qualcomm has splashed out $32m on data-gathering outfit Xiam. The Irish company specialises in analysing the habits of mobile phone users in order to target advertising at them, and has customers including Orange UK.
Targeted advertising is all the rage these days, but the ways in which the necessary data is gathered is still the subject of hot debate. Xiam makes great play of its ability to profile users just by watching what they do without requiring configuration, and
Orange UK apparently "supplies Xiam with data including billing information, mobile browsing logs and purchase history".
Orange assured us that the "browsing logs" only refers to on-portal usage (within Orange World), and "billing information" relates to purchases made from the operator.
However, Portal Relevance Manager Jim Small is quoted as saying that 2008 will be the year when the service is "rolled out fully into all download content areas and beyond into browsing content in third-party off portal services".
We asked Orange if it was serious about this, but met with silence. ...."