Categories
In the News
Most Active Members
RSSTag : phorm (15)
-
UK gets final warning over Phorm trials »
Posted by: myfairlady 3 weeks, 6 days ago in Political News
The UK government today came a step closer to international embarrassment over its failure to act against BT and Phorm for their secret trials of ...
(read more)Read (114) | Share | Discuss (1) | Read Full Story at theregister.co.uk
-
Uh oh, Google goes all Phorm on your ass »
Posted by: happygeek 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The whole concept of behaviour-based targeting of online advertising is guaranteed to kick up a privacy stink wherever it appears. When that place is Google ...
(read more)Read (21) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at itwire.com
-
Phorm being dropped faster than a *****'s drawers »
Posted by: happygeek 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
In what must go down as one the biggest tech u-turns of the century so far, the ISP that was quite happy to undertake Internet ...
(read more)Read (28) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at daniweb.com
-
UK OFT Opens Study Into Behavioural Advertising - Impacts Phorm−ISPreview UK »
Posted by: ispreview 3 months ago in News
The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has opened a market study into advertising and pricing, which will also cover behavioural advertising. The news caused ...
(read more)Read (8) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at ispreview.co.uk
-
Amazon and Wikipedia phactor Phorm out of the privacy equation »
Posted by: happygeek 7 months, 1 week ago in News
Even if the UK Government are not going to stop Phorm spying on Internet users on privacy grounds, it looks like some of the biggest ...
(read more)Read (20) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at itwire.com
-
BBC NEWS | Technology | Amazon blocks Phorm adverts scan »
Posted by: N1969 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
It has proved controversial because it scans almost all sites a user visits and there is an ongoing political debate about how a user gives ...
(read more)Read (13) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at news.bbc.co.uk
-
Phorm UK Culls Spin Site and Sees Chief Technology Officer Depart−ISPreview UK »
Posted by: ispreview 2 months, 1 week ago in News
Troubled Phorm (WebWise), the controversial service that works with UK broadband ISPs to monitor what websites you visit for use in targeted advertising campaigns, has ...
(read more)Read (2) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at ispreview.co.uk
-
Phorm Results Remain Upbeat Despite Losing UK Broadband ISP Support−ISPreview UK »
Posted by: ispreview 2 months ago in News
Troubled Phorm (WebWise), the controversial service that works with ISPs to monitor what websites you visit for use in targeted advertising campaigns, has today published ...
(read more)Read (0) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at ispreview.co.uk
-
GOTCHA! EU takes UK to court over Phorm snooping trials »
Posted by: happygeek 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
The UK has structurally flawed data protection and privacy laws which allowed secret Internet snooping trials to take place. Now the European Union is stepping ...
(read more)Read (28) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at itwire.com
-
EU Steps Up UK Legal Action over Phorm and Online Privacy »
Posted by: ispreview 3 weeks, 6 days ago in News
The European Commission (EC) today moved to the second phase of an infringement proceeding against the UK concerning a lack of full privacy and personal ...
(read more)Read (0) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at ispreview.co.uk
-
Bad Phorm: EU demands UK Government response on intrusive web ad tracking technology »
Posted by: happygeek 1 year, 3 months ago in News
Controversial behavioral advertising targeting outfit Phorm, whose Webwise ad technology monitors user browsing habits to serve appropriate advertising messages, might have dragged the UK Government ...
(read more)Read (198) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at itwire.com
-
BT Bans Talking About Phorm, Erases Earlier Discussions »
Posted by: schestowitz 12 months ago in Science & Technology
Is it really so hard to allow open discussion on such a topic? If BT believes that it's reasonable to use the technology, then ...
(read more)Read (55) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at techdirt.com
-
Bad Phorm: Detectives question BT over secret trials »
Posted by: happygeek 1 year, 2 months ago in News
File under About Bloody Time. At long last UK police detectives have questioned BT about the secret Phorm trials it carried out without customer knowledge ...
(read more)Read (113) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at itwire.com
-
Bad Phorm: UK Police give green light to Internet spying »
Posted by: happygeek 1 year, 2 months ago in News
BT is off the hook over those secret spying trials it conducted without bothering to inform, or should that be inphorm, customers about them until ...
(read more)Read (128) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at itwire.com
-
Bad Phorm: New BT trial begins, Safari users spared »
Posted by: happygeek 1 year, 1 month ago in News
Controversial behavioral advertising targeting outfit Phorm will start new trials of the Webwise system with BT Total Broadband customers starting tomorrow and lasting many weeks ...
(read more)Read (89) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at itwire.com
Advertisement
