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Originally Posted by serial
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you reply reminded me about this part
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK Data Protection Authority, has issued several statements concerning Phorm.
According to these statements, the ICO has been told that the users will be duly informed about the technology and presented with the possibility to become involved, i.e. to provide their consent by positively opting in, and that they will also have the possibility to change their mind at any moment later.
The ICO states that it will be in close contact with Phorm and British Telecom (BT) during a trial of the technology involving around 10 000 BT broadband customers who will opt in to the trial.
The ICO finds that, according to the explanation provided by Phorm, there does not appear to be any detriment to users in the operation of the Phorm system but it will keep the Phorm products under review as they are rolled out to verify whether the assurances Phorm has provided so far are confirmed in practice.
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perhaps a few VERY cleverly worded FOI requests to the ICO asking for full discloser of all documents past regarding this "close contact" including its operational procedures they will take and all other ICO plans to track this most important review covering not just BT but potentially 70% plus of the whole UK BB installed base and every single person using that connection.
and all the dates they have been given for this trial to begin ,and any slippage dates they are aware of etc and a final must be compleated by date (or its scraped and off the table)if that exists.
or if indeed they are conducting it today in some obscure place, just to get the officail UK information commissioners 'its not happened yet' from the ICO would be something to use later in any EU paperwork...
its clear if the ICO are to be really effective in their full review of the Intercepton for profit , they must be in posession of the dates and all facts we cant seem to get out of BT
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/search/phorm
is the place to put them, the only other thing is the exact wording to get the most information out of your Freedom Of Information act request there....!
to be clear, its not just for our information ,but its also useful for keeping the presure on for any EU actions we may need/want to take later, paperwork and PDF's are good.......
