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Originally Posted by tarka
I agree that it is entirely possible they were forging cookies. Were the UID's linked to an ip address? I couldn't say, and I'm not sure if IP's were classed as PII back then. Given the nature of cookies being tied to the domains they are assigned from I don't think that part of the model would have changed (at least not much).
It's just that as I was typing that post and trying to imagine the process involved a couple of things occured to me and I wanted to refresh my memory on the use of cookies.
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I'm trying to explore the cookie issue a bit more, especially in the light of BT T&C's preventing them dropping them directly (clearly BT must have had that legal advice).
Does it matter that they are laundering the cookies via phorm and a 3rd party ad site?
They still
know that by taking the decision to proceed, it will cause their customers to receive cookies that are outside their T&C's, but BT will still make use of.
If the list of websites at the end of the document were used for the cookie drop does it make any difference that these sites appear to be all US sites as speculated on Badphorm?
http://www.badphorm.co.uk/e107_plugi...pic.php?6337.0
I just feel that there has to be something here if we can prove they broke their own T&C's.