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Originally Posted by phormwatch
Well, what do you suggest? A campaign of writing to the mainstream press? Have you tried at least contacting the BBC with all that information, Pete?
If anyone has any call to action regarding Phorm, you right now have a very receptive audience at The Register, with those reading the latest Phorm article. I suggest you register and post your suggestion.
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Front page of the Metro paper this morning:
"Spy more on your citizens - Councils are urged to snoop"
Oddly this is advice from the man who my local police said was responsible for investigating illegal interceptions under RIPA 2000 (they were wrong as you know) but it's true: Sir Paul Kennedy says that councils should be doing more to request phone call details, emails etc to identify criminals etc. Fair enough I s'pose but it's not possible, (is it?) that Sir Paul's office might havebeen the one who spoke with BT and got excited about the possibilities?
Can Sir Paul's office be issued FOI requests? Office of the Interception of Communication Commissioner... I don't know if they can be requested info in this way but he is appointed by the PM in consultation with others:
http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page3375.asp
Hank
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re: the 'open letter'...
It's excellent and I could only spot one typo
In this: "The valuable content on your commercial web sites should not be used for this purpose without your consent (and your customers consent)."
"your
customers' consent"
(I
think I am right that the apostrophe should be after the 's' on 'customers' because it's the consent of all of them that would be needed to proceed with the interception and profiling activity)
Great letter! And I do think it's worth sending to the editor of prited papers for their letters page (and maybe some mags too, like PC Advisor, Computer Weekly, maybe some small business enterprise type mags too?)