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Dephormation · 30-07-2008, 20:24

You'll see over on Bad Phorm I've had more letters from regulators, either refusing to answer questions, or buck passing.

I can't emphasise enough how important it is to move ISP, because you effectively have no one (currently) who is willing to uphold your right to data communication privacy. Let alone the rights of 160,000+ people involved in earlier trials.

If you have a rogue communication service provider, who sells your communication data, to a bunch of Russian alleged purveyors of spyware, you have literally no protection.

There are profound implications for people who find themselves included in Phorm trials (voluntarily or involuntarily)... If you find your communication data has been shared with Phorm, without your consent, no regulator will take action against BT (or Virgin or TalkTalk). The only protection you have is in your own hands (and that means choosing a new communication service provider you can trust, and using encryption whenever possible to do so).

On a more positive note, I received a document from BERR which will please the web masters amongst you... As I said in earlier posts, the one piece of legislation which is out of the hands of incompetent or corrupt regulators is copyright. And BERR agree;

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Dephormation Inactive Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Bristol Services: Aquiss.net and loving it. No more Virgin Media, no more Virgin Phone, no more Virgin Mobile. Posts: 629	Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797] You'll see over on Bad Phorm I've had more letters from regulators, either refusing to answer questions, or buck passing. I can't emphasise enough how important it is to move ISP, because you effectively have no one (currently) who is willing to uphold your right to data communication privacy. Let alone the rights of 160,000+ people involved in earlier trials. If you have a rogue communication service provider, who sells your communication data, to a bunch of Russian alleged purveyors of spyware, you have literally no protection. There are profound implications for people who find themselves included in Phorm trials (voluntarily or involuntarily)... If you find your communication data has been shared with Phorm, without your consent, no regulator will take action against BT (or Virgin or TalkTalk). The only protection you have is in your own hands (and that means choosing a new communication service provider you can trust, and using encryption whenever possible to do so). On a more positive note, I received a document from BERR which will please the web masters amongst you... As I said in earlier posts, the one piece of legislation which is out of the hands of incompetent or corrupt regulators is copyright. And BERR agree;