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Originally Posted by 80/20Thinking
You stun me. Are you suggesting that Phorm is so momentously important as an issue that he would lie in wait until being invited onto the AB of a privacy organisation that had no connection with Phorm, then capitalise on a 5+ year relationship in the hope that we might at some point in the future be asked to do a PIA on Phorm? Hardly.
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Whilst I agree there is a lot of 'tin-foil hat' around Phorm, I do think that the move from BT to Phorm by
http://www.phorm.com/about/exec_scleparis.php
has made people wary of ANY connections between ex-BT staff and ANYTHING to do with Phorm.
On a more general point, you do seem to regard Phorm as a minor issue in the grand scheme of things. For example, I think you raised the issue of mass finger-printing. Speaking purely for myself, I see a massive difference between an 'invasion of privacy' for the greater good (prevention/detection of crminality) and invasion of privacy for pure commercial gain. I suspect you won't agree with this perspective, but I think it explains just why Phorm has created such a backlash, whereas other 'privacy' issues haven't.