Phorm and BT Go Free
Posted in I have been covering the Phorm “situation” over the last couple of weeks, even going so far as to ask them a few questions after they asked me to change an assertion (which I did not, although I did add an addendum). Alexander Hanff, a noted IT specialist, claimed that the 2006 BT-Phorm trials had contravened the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) and the Data Protection Act. In the U.K. they have laws like this. In America we have the Patriot Act. *cough*
From ZDNetUK (found via Hermes Project Blog)
The Information Commissioner’s Office has ruled out an investigation of BT or Phorm, despite calls from academics for the telecommunications giant to be punished over trials of controversial ad-serving technology in 2006.
Following the publication of a leaked document detailing a trial of the technology by Phorm and BT, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) told ZDNet.co.uk on Monday that the information in the leaked document would not cause it to take any punitive action against the companies.
“The ICO seeks to resolve issues informally,” said an ICO spokesperson. “We didn’t have the internal [leaked] document, but Phorm and BT did present us with information [after the trial]. We’ve worked with BT and Phorm and we are not going to take any punitive action at this stage.”
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