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Originally Posted by Hank
On cookies: Reading 4th section (page 46 of 52 in footer) - I see the 3rd paragraph states cookie dropping could not be done in this trial due to the legal position. So I'm not sure they did do this but if someone has evidence or has read in the hefty document that they did, I'll happily stand corrected.
Hank
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Hank, on page 7 in the document, and I mentioned it in this post:
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34...-post8018.html
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Normally the PageSense system deploys cookies directly to user's machines. BT's broadband terms and conditions prevented this approach. Instead 121Media conducted an initial cookie drop exercise. For two-weeks prior to the trial proper 121Media purchased advertising space on popular third-party websites from which cookies were dropped directly onto users machines.
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Phorm dropped 3rd party cookies to users themselves in the 2 weeks ahead of the trial, and then all the way through it.
That's how they got round BT's T&Cs.
I'm surprised that no-one has made more mention of the Javascript injections. Given that Emma S. keeps stuttering out her "it's err... umm... not illegal" carp, I would say that injecting this sort of thing into hundreds of thousands of [intercepted] pages (without permission) before sending them to unsuspecting users is not exactly legal.
I'm also sure that the admission of collecting IP addresses also blows a few holes in the "we don't collect personal information" argument. JHMO
OB