PHORM? BT selling on my browsing details?

Anyone any idea just what the LATEST is on this BT Phorm business ...
half the BT Customer Services bods have no idea WHAT I am talking
about .. that is of course WHEN I can get through ....

"Jack Ouzzi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:98e8955d-0ee4-41ea-9d11-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Anyone any idea just what the LATEST is on this BT Phorm business ...
> half the BT Customer Services bods have no idea WHAT I am talking
> about .. that is of course WHEN I can get through ....

June
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle4137799.ece

about 15 paras down
quote :

"and BT - where the latest trial of the technology begins this week -"

and Google is your friend

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/29/phorm_roundup/

There are stories of people being silenced by BT over this,
I used to be paranoid, buit know I know they are out to get me!

Des

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:02:00 +0100, John Livingston <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Digby wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:56:58 +0100, "Dieseldes" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "Jack Ouzzi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:98e8955d-0ee4-41ea-9d11-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> Anyone any idea just what the LATEST is on this BT Phorm business ...
>>>> half the BT Customer Services bods have no idea WHAT I am talking
>>>> about .. that is of course WHEN I can get through ....
>>> June
>>> http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle4137799.ece
>>>
>>> about 15 paras down
>>> quote :
>>>
>>> "and BT - where the latest trial of the technology begins this week -"
>>>
>>
>> At the BT AGM on 16th July 2008, shareholders were told that trials of
>> Phorm would start in a couple of weeks. Mind you BT have been saying
>> that for months.
>> If you look at the Phorm financial reports they seem to have been
>> developing versions of this system for nearly four years so I don't
>> expect it to work any day now.
>>
>
>Having watched this since day 1, here's my (slightly informed) guess as
>to what is ACTUALLY happening with Webwise :
>
>Phorm has stitched BT Retail up into a contract with horrible penalty
>clauses, should BT pull out.
>
>BT Retail has discovered that Webwise is A REALLY BAD IDEA. Hardly a
>week goes by without someone discovering yet another potential illegal
>consequence.

So, can that still be a legal contract?


--
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
http://www.sandrila.co.uk/ http://www.pherber.com/

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:24:37 -0700, Jack Ouzzi wrote:

> Anyone any idea just what the LATEST is on this BT Phorm business ...
> half the BT Customer Services bods have no idea WHAT I am talking about
> .. that is of course WHEN I can get through ....

Yeah, many people have had the same experience. I think tech support have
been told to pretend they don't know what Phorm/Webwise is. BT pretty
pretty much wants to keep Webwise under wraps. It has become The Product
Which Dare Not Speak Its Name.

If you want to know more information about Phorm/Webwise, go here:

http://www.inphormationdesk.org

Join the campaign here:

http://www.nodpi.org

- Ed
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