[Rchivist]

Just to recap, I'm awaiting replies from BT management on the following:

1 - The ISPA statements in October 2007 about how they "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... data protection legislation actually prevents ISPs from looking at the content of the packets sent " and whether that has application to the current situation with webwise/phorm.

2 - The Struan Robertson article that points out the contradiction between statements that Phorm can be instructed by an OIX partner to send ads to an individual based on what they viewed 2 days previously, and the statement that Phorm "never knows who you are, it can't find out and it has no record of where you've been"

3 - The "Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008" which result in an automatic DPA breach (with the need for ICO action) if other legislation has been breached (even the "technical breaches" that Struan Robertson thinks don't matter).

4 - The fact that the robots.txt method of excluding Webwise/Phorm, promoted and recommended by Phorm and by BT, won't work on the BT hosted customer websites, whether on BTOpenworld or on BTYahoo!/Geocities because webmasters do not have access to the toplevel domain where robots.txt is stored, and which NOT include any exclusion clauses such as those which would exclude Google or Phorm.

I'll either post the replies here or the gist of them if there is not consent to publish exact text.
Have a good weekend everyone.