It would seem, at last, that mainstream media is finally starting to report snippets of the BT/Phorm scandal.
BBC News has published an extract from the HoL questions last thursday:
'Test case'
Lord West was also asked about trials by BT of an online system of advertising involving more than 30,000 of its customers, known as Phorm.
In 2006 and 2007 this matched adverts to users' web habits, although BT did not inform customers they were part of such a project.
The peer said the government was "not aware" of the tests beforehand, and an investigation was now checking if these had been "appropriate".
Since then BT had made a formal approach to begin a trial "of about 10,000 broadband subscribers", Lord West said, but he was unclear if this was "covered by law".
A test case might be needed to consider whether this was a form of "interception", he added.
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