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Originally Posted by Privacy_Matters
I wrote to Alistair Darling, my MP - and he contacted BERR, namely John Hutton MP.
I will note that the response from Mr Hutton is extremely empty, and appears to contain alot of Phorm PR. Additionally, he sent me the ICO Website Article (which I have viewed so many time already).
Quote - para 2 from the letter:
As you may be aware, some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have announced plans to track Internet web activity using Phorm's Webwise and Open Internet Exchange (OIX) products. Many web pages, including for example search engine results pages, include advertising which may or may not be of interest to the customer. Phorm enables the ISP to replace these advertisements with others that are relevant to the customer's recent web browsing. This potentially means less irrelevant advertisements for the user and better targeting of their advertisements for the advertgisers, for which they would pay the ISP.
You should note in addition to Mr Hutton drafting this letter to Mr Darling using the Phorm PR as a reference; Mr Hutton also appears to have a few of the facts incorrect.
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Okay - that's helpful.
I have a bit of jargon of my own now - I think we can classify these key people as either
UNinphormed -average member of public who simply hasn't heard of Phorm
DEphormed - someone who has chatted to Kent or read the Phorm PR
or
REphormed - someone who has read the information we can give them
We have seen some really encouraging signs of key public figures being REphormed. I think Baroness Miller is a classic example - look at her performance in the Lords just after the demo. Her questions were spot on and so useful.
When a DEphormed figure makes a public statement (I would classify John Hutton's reply as DEphormed) then we need to be nice to them and REphorm them. They may then be very useful to us. Like all those shareholders that got REphormed on Wednesday. Well done again everyone.
further comment:
The question from Lord Northesk that Lord West of Spithead (HO) didn't answer at all in that session, was the one asking how/why the HO correspondence about Phorm got onto cryptome website. "My Lords, can the Minister explain how the Home Office advice to Phorm found its way onto the cryptome.org website?"
totally ignored!
Always interested in the questions that didn't get answered!