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Story: Campaigner fights on for BT-Phorm prosecution
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Interesting points. You're right in saying that the trials are ongoing at the moment. However, BT said that the trials are to run for "a number of weeks", rather than six plus.
I was interested in the points you raised, so I gave BT a ring. They denied that the trials have not started.
"The trial has started, invitations have gone out, and people have accepted them," a BT spokesperson told me. The spokesperson declined to say how many people had accepted the invitation, or how long the trial would run.
"I'm not at liberty to give a running commentary on the trial, and as such we've not given a specific end date," said the spokesperson.
As for your conjecture that the trial story could be a hoax, well, I think it's unlikely that BT would announce the trial and then not go through with it, quite simply because the reputational damage would be huge _when_ it was found out. That sort of thing would completely scupper its Webwise product in the eyes of the public, something BT quite patently doesn't want to happen. If BT ran the trial but didn't obtain customer consent, then the Information Commissioner's Office would take exception to the trial, with a similar bad publicity result for BT.
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