Controversy Still Hampers Phorm Technology As Police Drops Investigation

Privacy International, a leading UK based privacy consultancy group has decided to discontinue all advisory work it undertakes for private firms following allegations from Google regarding its impartiality and possible conflict...

The European Commission, lead by the Commissioner Viviane Reding, has criticised the UK for giving too much liberty to internet service firms to gather personal data on users and could take actions to remediate this. In a...

Internet users could be offered broadband connection at a reduced price or a donation made in their names if they choose to use Phorm. According to the Telegraph, Phorm's CEO Kent Ertugrul is evaluation those options and others...

The Open Rights Group has sent a letter to some of the biggest tech companies in the world, asking them to reject the controversial behavioural advertising solution, Phorm/Webwise. In an open letter sent to the chief privacy...

The father of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, issued a stark warning about the looming threat of online snooping solutions which could endanger the very fabric of the web as we know it. Berners-Lee made the comments...

Advertisers and agencies in the US have promised to create a code of practice to allay fears about increasingly intrusive forms of online advertising. Four major advertising trade associations said that they will work together on...

Shares in Phorm have surged by more than 40 percent after the company has successfully completed the trial of its focused advertising technology, with the telecom giant BT.  The duo has completed the successful trial of...

Broadband service provider Orange is not going to use controversial tracking technology from Phorm (at least not for now) because it values the privacy of its customers according to Paul-François Fournier, the senior...

The European Union (EU) has sent a letter to UK government, asking it to decide about the validity of web browsing tracking service from Phorm, within a span of 30 days. The letter from the EU Telecom and Media Commissioner,...

A legal action seems inevitable after BT’s confirmation that they had actually used data from their web users without their explicit consent to test the information gathering tool Phorm. Earlier in the week, WikiLeaks...

A privacy group recently launched a software application that would create irrelevant data to cover a use’s surfing habits and protect him/her from Phorm. A privacy group called the AntiPhorm group has released a new...

Desktop on Demand, a remote desktop service launched by Security Firm De Futuro, aims at providing IT and document management teams with a full office suite, enhanced privacy and file sharing functionality. The additional...

MEPs have voted against plans to ban internet users who share copyright files from the internet; ISPs and governments did propose a three-strike plan whereby ISPs should monitor customers and cutting users from their internet...

Phorm will have to comply with the latest directives from the Information Commissioner Office (ICO) if the controversial advertising system is to be deployed in UK In what many have considered as a welcomed u-turn, the ICO now...

A technical evaluation done by Dr Richard Clayton, a computer security researcher at the University of Cambridge, found out that Phorm, the controversial ad system that BT and other ISPs are planning to implement soon, is...