LOL, Alexander, your a writer now not an IT specialist or trainer.... "The media moguls likely won't get any lucrative pay out of Hanff. All he has are those guitars, a printer and three cats. As it turns out though, that's the type of arsenal our most feared criminals pack these days."
even funner in a sick kind of way is Ian Grant's ( the writer of the story below) bio
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Ian has been writing about information technology and communications since (just) before IBM launched its first PC. He still thinks there are four basic stories in this industry: the R&D, the engineering, the sales and the effects of the technology.
These days he’s more interested in the human side of IT all – how IT changes relationships between people, so it’s just as well his main beats are security, retail and small and medium enterprises."
given theres no feedback Options there, perhaps it's time YOU the CF readers took advantage of the direct News pages of this very board, and take the time to write some real News stories based on the facts as collected in this thread.
Mick and the crew are always willing to accept
one off news stories for the front page.
that News page is scaned by the international news wires, and
any cable forum news stories posted, usually show up on the wires with minutes of being made available.
GO ON, you know you can do it, write and submit a Phorm news story (to Mick) based on the facts collected here and dispel the erroneous PR spin and lack of real research of the facts from the likes of Ian at computer weekly.
Ian's clearly a fan of Phorm and Kent "Phorm CEO Kent Ertegrul gave a spirited defence. He showed how Phorm destroys any link between a user's IP address and subsequent surfing history"
and looking to discredit the userbase and its motives as irrelevant.
"Clayton, who has had an in-depth look at Phorm's processes, praised the firm for the way it dealt with data protection issues.
However, he objected to Phorm's ability to deliver advertisements to his browser. "
and he cant even report that first paragraph right, its not "an unprecedented "town hall meeting" "
as much as its the first
Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) meeting based on the
official ICO's PIA documentation as first published in December 2007,
for the benefit of the individual stakeholders not the "Critics" as you put it, as you would have known Ian if you had bothered to read the thread in your research
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...ad-page-2.html
Ian's laughable PIA coverage story is here:
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articl...ll-meeting.htm
"Phorm answers critics at 'town-hall' meeting
Author: Ian Grant
Posted: 16:41 18 Apr 2008
Topics:Internet Portals & Search
Advertisement serving company Phorm has defended its controversial technology at an unprecedented "town hall meeting" in London on Tuesday.
Phorm's technology is controversial because it tracks web browsing behaviour to determine which advertisements to send to the owner's browser. Critics say this is an invasion of their privacy, and that use of the technology may break several laws.
Critics, led by Cambridge University's Richard Clayton and writer Alexander Hanff, charged Phorm with breaking several laws, including the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), the Fraud Act and others, including European law on data privacy and protection.....
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