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Originally Posted by wecpc
I am a BT customer that was involved in the 2007 trial and I have proof of it. I recently emailed our local PC contact (as we live out in the sticks) from his email address as stated on the Kent Police website, briefly explaining the problem and how to progress further in reporting it, but it has just bounced back after several days, so I will have to try again in person this time.
In the meantime I have just written a 2nd letter tonight to the BT Chairman's Office asking why they had not replied to my 1st letter but now stating that I now demand my MAC and cancellation (after successful migration) of my recently renewed contract (just prior to all hell breaking loose) without penalty due to their ILLEGAL interception of my data stream on 1st July 2007. Along with the cancellation of my BT Vision and BT Talk service and I said as soon as we get an LLU provider I will move my phone account also. I even stated that I would even cancel my frequently used DABS Online account as it is BT owned and have nothing else to do with BT ever again. Their loss. If a large number of BT users did the same they would lose a lot more money than PHORM is paying them.
Colin
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Why not email it to the home office aswell I can supply an email address for Simon who has been answering my emails about phorm. I have no asked for answers to two questions.
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my Email to Simon Watkin today..
The opt-out from Phorm is not as it should be you are still intercepted yet you have selected to not be. Phorm will still access my clicks making this opt-out a red herring. Enforced opt-in is most objectionable since many have children using the internet that could accidentally be tracked. Phorm is supposed to give anonymously our harvested clicks and information, this very information can with enough give out who you are stopping you from being anonymous. To make this more unpalatable the person doing this is someone I wouldn't trust who also has Russian programmers who like Kent have been part of the whole spy/adware problems in past years. Some servers IP numbers have been showing up as the servers are based in China. Security could be compromised..
To move on the trials already carried out by BT as this is definitely interception and those customers were not given the chance to opt-in or out. This would make those trials by BT and Phorm of thousands of customers without informed consent. As this interception was without consent of either the customer or the website visited going from RIPA this would be illegal.
1.With this in mind BT and Phorm carried out trials without informed consent these trials should be investigated as breaking RIPA ?
2. Will the Home Office bring to court those who instigated these trails during 2006/2007 without customers consent?
These are two very important questions that need to be addressed.
The ISP I had trusted with my details were only given the necessary information, I did refuse to have anything sent from their partners even though my phone was with them they knew I was registered with TPS. I personally would never fill in any information to a company like phorm or any company that has a past history like Phorm's.
The outcome of a women in America proves that your clicks can and will still give away who you are so the phrase totally anonymous is not working. The fact that even though I opt out I will still be intercepted and go via Phorm's equipment is not an acceptable compromise.
The only way you could compare how I feel about this program and trust in the management would be to make a comparison. . It is like putting a pedophile in charge of a primary school you wouldn't due to the temptation putting Phorm on our ISP network, with access to our clicks plus the harvesting it does from reading our pages. With a system patent showing it has the ability to go beyond what is offered to a group of people with past history which is somewhat untrustworthy would be the same.
I will not post on the forums any part of your last email to me as requested but really feel that the questions need to be addressed and justice for those who had their privacy, security and in a few cases had the added expense of buying new PC's as BT blamed the customer for having something on the pc when infect they were in the trials.
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I hope this email will be enough to make the trials legality be checked first then those whoi were instigating the trials brought to justice for the customers who were used.