[Winston Smith]

Originally Posted by LadyMinion

Just found a somewhat pro-phorm article here:

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/...3-24584218.htm

Quite a bit of misinformation and selective quoting I'm afraid.

From that article:

"The opposition probably won't stop Phorm. British officials have affirmed its legality."

Have they? My reading is that the official government channels have skipped merrily around the issue, avoiding the question while independant bodies such as FIPR have said 'No. it's illegal'.

One nice paragraph though:

"Yet there's a bit more going on. In a now-abandoned incarnation, Phorm was 121 Media Inc., a provider of ad technology commonly derided as spyware. Also, British Telecom's initial trials with Phorm weren't disclosed to customers.
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