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Rchivist · 07-07-2008, 11:05

I've just sent in a couple of spoilers to BT

First - a reminder that their BT Retail legal department never replied to my 16th May letter about the legal aspects of Phorm/Webwise - I have suggested they will have less paperwork replying direct to me than having to do all the paperwork for a formal regulator enquiry which will get triggered in 14 days if I don't hear from them.

Secondly - a formal data protection request to BT to ask them what PII of mine they have passed to Phorm, via their insecure www.bt.com cookies and the BT Webwise contact page (I have hard evidence this end that they ran insecure cookies in one case (which were then available to Phorm via BT Webwise site when Phorm were running it), and actually passed on in another case, my PII directly to Phorm). Their answer will be published here, and sent to the ICO along with my own evidence (Dephormation logs and a BT Webwise Contact page email reply with header evidence that it came via Phorm). worth every penny of the statutory Ã‚Â£10.

I'm still waiting on an ICO acknowledgement to a fairly lengthy snail mail complaint, so hopefully that will result in BT having to do a lot more paperwork in communication with the ICO. I really like the fact that for the cost of a second class stamp I can cost these corporations a lot of money and time in correspondence with regulators.

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Rchivist Inactive Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 831	Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797] I've just sent in a couple of spoilers to BT First - a reminder that their BT Retail legal department never replied to my 16th May letter about the legal aspects of Phorm/Webwise - I have suggested they will have less paperwork replying direct to me than having to do all the paperwork for a formal regulator enquiry which will get triggered in 14 days if I don't hear from them. Secondly - a formal data protection request to BT to ask them what PII of mine they have passed to Phorm, via their insecure www.bt.com cookies and the BT Webwise contact page (I have hard evidence this end that they ran insecure cookies in one case (which were then available to Phorm via BT Webwise site when Phorm were running it), and actually passed on in another case, my PII directly to Phorm). Their answer will be published here, and sent to the ICO along with my own evidence (Dephormation logs and a BT Webwise Contact page email reply with header evidence that it came via Phorm). worth every penny of the statutory Ã‚Â£10. I'm still waiting on an ICO acknowledgement to a fairly lengthy snail mail complaint, so hopefully that will result in BT having to do a lot more paperwork in communication with the ICO. I really like the fact that for the cost of a second class stamp I can cost these corporations a lot of money and time in correspondence with regulators.