Thread: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Old 05-05-2008, 23:27   #5791
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Originally Posted by AlexanderHanff View Post
I hadn't mentioned it but I did receive an email from a prominent legal expert (whom we all admire) requesting permission to use my section on Copyright, Designs and Patents Act for an upcoming ISPA Legal Forum as he considered it work original to me.
Alexander, if you haven't seen this post on vm.feedback you might enjoy it;

Are VirginMedia still part of the ISPA?

[Oct 2007 ISPA spokesman said] "ISPs cannot monitor or record the type of information passed over their network. ISPs are no more able to inspect and filter every single packet passing across their network than the Post Office is able to open every envelope. ISPs deal with many more packets of data each day than postal services and data protection legislation actually prevents ISPs from looking at the content of the packets sent," he added.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7059881.stm

[April 2008 Richard Clayton, Treasurer, FIPR said] "The Phorm system is highly intrusive -- it's like the Post Office opening all my letters to see what I'm interested in, merely so that I can be sent a better class of junk mail."
http://www.fipr.org/press/080317phorm.html
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