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Originally Posted by philj

Terms and Copyright © 2007 PPI

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I am going to ask them how thiey reconcile this with the deployment of Phorm

Phil


text of email sent to passport office

Sir,
Reproduced below are terms, copyright notices taken from your site. Also your stated policy regarding information held by yourselves.

I would be grateful if you could tell me how you will seek to reconcile your stated policy and protect this information you hold when and if PHORM is implemented by BT and Virginmedia. You state in the underlined section unauthorised copying or reproducing etc is prohibited but this is exactly what the Phorm system entails. If you take no action to protect this information you will in my opinion be condoning and participating in what has already been admitted,by BT themselves, to be an illegal act after their illegal interception of data transmissions in Sept/Oct 2006 and June 2007. Regardless of any opt in opt out procedure it is my understanding that data will still pass through this system making your assurances obsolete and worthless.

I would be grateful for your comments on this matter and correction where I am in error

Your sincerely

http://www.ips.gov.uk/passport/privacy.asp

http://www.ips.gov.uk/passport/copyright.asp

There is plenty on that site to quote at the Home Office and DBERR (don't forget DBERR) in any letters about the copyright issues around Webwise.

Maybe the ICO might like to read it too.

But BT won't need to worry about that, it doesn't apply to them. They've sought er obtained um legal opin.. er advice. Intercept, scrape, copy, profile, exploit - BT can do it, just don't do it yourself (especially on a BT connection)

Isn't it ironic - the mods here quite rightly, warn us about pasting large amounts of copyright text, but Emma Sanderson says their legal advice is that they can copy to their hearts content, make derivative works, and exploit them for the commercial gain of 3rd parties. And at the same time, chase down filesharers and throttle ALL non port 80 activity etc etc etc.

Their lawyers must be very very clever people to be able to face so many ways at once.

---------- Post added at 08:21 ---------- Previous post was at 08:17 ----------

Originally Posted by Ravenheart

Thanks Rob,

Maybe if a few of us send it in they're more likely to include them.

Yes- it's good that they are obviously preparing - with a few NebuAd sites listed, and a "section" ready and waiting for Phorm IPV4 assignment sites to be added. Quite cheered me up that did. Once Phorm and Webwise sites are included then the MVPS hosts file can be included in publicity. I think a lot of people use it - the MVPS designation is well respected.

I know it is "blocking" rather than "preventing" the system, but every little helps, and if the market isn't there, because of things like the MVPS hosts entries, then Phorm's market model collapses even further.