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Originally Posted by serial
I'm sorry if I'm being overly cynical, but I'm looking at my choice of hats and have selected the tinfoil one.
8020 Advisory group contains: Ray Stanton, Global Head of Business Continuity, Security & Governance, BT plc
So, Phorm, pioneered by BT plc have paid an auditing company to green light its system when that company also has a high level BT plc employee as an advisor.
Anyone else see a major problem here?
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An advisory group is exactly that - advisory - and hence has a variety of people on it, with a variety of views, and backgrounds. So I would expect to see privacy focussed people, and even people from the marketing industry - 80/20 should be seeking advice from "opponents" as well as "friends".
It worries me far more that the Phorm team of executives includes people like CTO Stratis Scleparis, who was CTO at BT at a critical time in the development of this BT/Phorm relationship. CTO's don't advise, they make decisions - but who for? Their current employers or their future employers or their past employers?