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Originally Posted by icsys
Note this extract from the EU letter: Amazing that Phorm (as at 7th August 2008) still insist that users will be allowed to opt-out rather than be asked to opt-in....
Above extract from this news article |
This mirrors the USA NebuAd story - when the NebuAd guy was in front of the Congress committee he consistently dodged the questions about opt-in/opt-out and was recognised to be doing so. Their excuse was that customers had a robust transparent notification - although in fact that wasn't really true, and for many ISP's there was no real notification at all. (That was transparent in the BT/Phorm meaning of the word- the notification was so transparent, no one could see it)
Then ISP's commercially can't afford to let go on that one. And they won't unless they are clearly told they
have to make the default sitatuation that customers are not opted-in unless they choose actively to do so.
Comparing our situation with the States - we have the laws that apparently make it mandatory to ASK customers to opt-in themselves, whereas they have a Congress that is vigorously flexing it's muscles, but don't yet have the laws to get what they want. We have a government that seems to wish we DIDN'T have the laws and is trying NOT to enforce them.