First off, a big thanks to Alexander for all his work on this and for his great effort last night.
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Originally Posted by Pasanonic
I appreciate That Alex is upset that some people have seemed disrespectful to Mr Davies and I hope I was not one of them as that was not my intention. but his ( SD) statements last night dismissing any talk of legality for the DPI system smacked to me of a whitewash and they should have arranged for legal counsel to be there as the legalities are the whole issue here.
However I thought,'benefit of the doubt'.
That was until I saw Mr Davies on the Channel 4 item today. It is clear from his comments given to 4 that he is clearly not an independent person working to produce just a PIA but was quite clear in his words that he is a supporter of the phorm system and is working to see that it is implemented for commercial gain. He did not appear in my view to be anything like the independent he keeps claiming to be.
So regardless of his work in the past with respect to 80/20 Thinking I personally shall be accepting that any further statements from them are to be treated as positive spin from a company with a vested interest in moving this technology into the mainstream.
Craig.
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I have to totally agree with this. Like everyone else here I admire Mr Davies for the work he has done in the past, but I just cannot see how he can support what Phorm/Webwise plan to do with our data. It should be remembered that with his PI hat on he did once say of the Google/Doubleclick deal on the PI site here:
http://www.privacyinternational.org/...D=x-347-560886
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Privacy International today expressed dismay and disbelief at the EC's unconditional approval of the Google-Doubleclick merger. PI's Director, Simon Davies, said "This single reprehensible action by the Commission represents this decade's greatest threat to online privacy. The EU will rue the day that it allowed a near monopoly market to be controlled by this company. Online privacy will now be a hostage to fortune, inevitably suffering death from a thousand cuts".
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I'm not too sure about how to read Mr Davies' comments where Phorm/Webwise are concerned. Since he does post here, perhaps he would tell us the difference between the two systems as he sees it.
OB
btw. This is not flamebait, so don't flame me. As previously stated I am a great admirer of Mr Davies previous work; it's just that something just doesn't 'ring true' for me.