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Originally Posted by ceedee
If they're 'allowed' to break the law, then of course our legal 'rights' under that law are useless.
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Under DPA, what law have they broken?
A hypothetical example, if British Telecom, under the DPA registered that they were going to process and store only the names and addresses of their customers. If a customer makes a call from their BT phone to a Mail order company, as part of the conversation the customer gives the Mail order firm their name, address and credit card, has BT broken the law?
I only have limited knowledge on the DPA, and there have been a lot of messages in this thread, so the question is - was the DPA ever meant to cover transmission of Personal Data by a communication company?
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Originally Posted by ceedee
And even if we 'win' the right to keep Phorm away from our clickstreams, I wouldn't be at all surprised if this is only the first, stumbling attempt at (ab)using our browsing/connection data.
I suspect that it's worth too much money for them to leave it alone.
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If this abuse becomes widespread, then one possible future, is that http use will die out and https (secure/encrypted) will be adopted as the norm for web pages.