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Originally Posted by Privacy_Matters
ok guys - its getting close to the AGM, so now for a suggestion
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One thing that nags at the back of my head is this:
The company which is getting into behavioural targeted (B.T.) advertising is BT Retail. This is part of the BT Retail Division which also includes BT Business.
The AGM is being conducted by a business called BT plc for its shareholders.
OK, just words, you may say. However, the differences in the words is like addressing 2 people from different sides of the world.
Unless I have missed something, the management of BT plc is not the same as the management of BT Retail. BT plc will, as the major shareholder, have appointed the board/management for BT Retail and be relying on reports from that management board to have any grasp of how the business is doing. Most of this will be in the format of financial reports. Something like 'advertising revenue' is probably so small as to be lost under Sundry Revenue.
The average shareholder will have even less chance of knowing anything about what BT Retail is proposing.
Because it has to be assumed that everyone attending the AGM, other than a small handful, have no idea about any of this, they should be treated the same as any other innocent member of the public who is hearing about BT Retail's proposed usage of DPI Systems for B.T. advertising (rather than the usual usage of DPI for service management) for the first time.
In other words, the protesters need to come across as a group of people who are looking for the help of the shareholders and main Board of BT plc to right an earlier wrong and to make them aware of and to prevent the further spread of corruption within their midst.