Hi All
I did not know anything about this business with Phorm until a news item via my RSS feed from the MacinTouch website arrived in my browser today - see below.
As a very reluctant BT customer I am horrified, but not surprised that my ISP has done this and am absolutely outraged that BT and the other ISPs involved have not been charged by the police.
I fully support your campaign - have signed the petition at 10 Downing Street, Dugg the various articles and also added them to Stumbleupon. In addition the MacinTouch website, which has been around since Macs were first developed, is a central plank of the Mac community, so the message will have been received by a huge number of people.
Keep up the good work!
Matari
From MacinTouch website (
http://www.macintouch.com/index.shtm....07.16.phorm):
The Register reports on a protest over British Telecom's support for a secret browser snooping system:
BT conducted two trials with Phorm which gave the former spyware company access to thousands of BT customers' browsing history without telling them. Phorm aims to use anonymised browsing information to sell more targeted advertising. BT insists the secret trial was legal, even though it appears to breach UK wiretap laws.
The secret trial came to light when Reg reader Stephen noticed his browser making unauthorised connections with a server he didn't recognise. He contacted BT and was told the server had nothing to do with them and he had probably picked up some malware. BT denied having done any deal with Phorm, although Phorm admitted the server was theirs and was being used to collect browsing information.
[See also The Phorm Files.]