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Originally Posted by Hank
I know it is so wrong. However, even though they did it like this to get around the fact that their Ts & Cs did not allow them to do it "using PageSense in the trial" it does seem to me that you are dead right: They found a way to drop the cookies all over the place so that they could use the fact that they were there later, but without breaking the law (in their opinion). Is that what we are saying here?
Hank
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I can't comment on which bits were more or less illegal than others. IANAL!
That's where this whole scenario is so surreal. If you take the FIPR line, the whole thing is illegal so the details are just details of which bit of illegality was which. all of it was illegal.
I think BT were less interested in
legality and more in
deniability which is really the name of the game now in our contract ridden, outsourced sub-contracted world. I serously think these executives have got to the point where they regard themselves as either above or immune to the law. They seem to think that it is something that only applies to the little people who pay their salaries.
Having spent a tedious amount of time on BT internal newsgroups being told by other customers that we had no proof, no evidence of wrongdoing, that we were scaremongering, I have to confess a certain amount of satisfaction in posting Alex's no DPI link there last night. And even more satisfaction emailing details to Emma Sanderson, Adam Liversage, Ben Verwaayen (sort of parting gift) and Ian Livingstone. Hope they enjoy their breakfast. It will not the day at the office that they were expecting.
I'm in London for 24 hours so expect I'll miss about 40 pages of this stuff!