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Ripa changes call for consent before snooping

...and Google. BT had carried out secret trials of a service called Phorm, which tracked BT customers' browsing in order to serve up better advertisements... Read more

20 April, 2011 by David Meyer

Commission refers UK to court over privacy laws

...s failure to take action over complaints about BT's trials of Phorm's behavioural advertising technology. That technology monitored people's web-surfing habits... Read more

30 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

EU warns web firms over 'do-not-track' timescale

...public consciousness due to the work of behavioural advertising companies such as Phorm. The company conducted secret trials with BT five years ago, logging the... Read more

22 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Home Office consults on interception law

...originally stemmed from complaints over secret BT tests of behavioural advertising service Phorm. The Home Office recognised that UK data protection laws such as Ripa... Read more

11 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Privacy watchdog raps TalkTalk over URL scanning

...TalkTalk's technology to BT's Webwise service, which was provided by Phorm. Webwise, which monitored people's web browsing to serve adverts based on... Read more

7 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

UK interception law consultation excludes civil groups

Non-profit groups have protested over being shut out of a Home Office consultation around Ripa, which is to be brought in line with European data protection laws Read more

29 November, 2010 by Jack Clark

EC drops UK Phorm infringement case

...a privacy infringement case against the UK government over BT trials of Phorm behavioural advertising. The government avoided Commission legal action by changing UK privacy... Read more

27 January, 2012

CPS declines to prosecute BT over Phorm trials

...Prosecution Service has decided not to prosecute BT over secret trials of Phorm behavioural advertising technology in 2006 and 2007. Privacy campaigner Alexander Hanff received... Read more

8 April, 2011

Book Review: The Filter Bubble

...get more Minority Report. Pariser points to efforts such as the (failed) Phorm advertising system and efforts to create single sign-on systems (Facebook, Google... Read more

27 September, 2011

TalkTalk pushes ahead with URL scanning scheme

...scheme, particularly after a similar project — called Webwise and provided by Phorm — was met with strong criticism by customers, peers and privacy campaigners... Read more

25 November, 2010

Web scanner complies with privacy law, says TalkTalk

...of a botnet as part of a campaign to "educate" its users. Phorm, a behaviourally-targeted ad platform that tracked internet usage in order to... Read more

24 August, 2010 by Ben Woods
Latin theater: Terence 1.0

Latin theater: Terence 1.0

...Publio Terenzio Afro. The six comedies presented here, Andria, Hecyra, Heautontimorumenos, Eunuchus, Phorm and Adelphoi constitute the whole work of the refined comedies author of... Read more

5 March, 2011
Peer protests BT's <endeca_term>Phorm</endeca_term> trials

Peer protests BT's Phorm trials

...Wednesday, against the 2006 and 2007 trials of the ad-serving technology Phorm. Miller was protesting against what she characterised as "illegal" trials of the... Read more

18 July, 2008 by Tom Espiner

TalkTalk drops Phorm

Internet service provider TalkTalk will not use behavioural advertising services from Phorm. A TalkTalk spokesperson told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that its Phorm agreement... Read more

9 July, 2009 by Tom Espiner

BT puts Phorm plans on hold

BT has shelved plans to implement behavioural ad-serving technology by Phorm that has drawn criticism as a potential risk to customer privacy. In... Read more

6 July, 2009 by Tom Espiner

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SoapyTablet

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apexwm

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Why is it that Newzealand has the guts to stand up to the USA and ask to see the evidence and we don't!

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Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

23 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

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debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

1 day ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC