BT Phorm Trial Illegal! |
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MartinW
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Posted: 02 Apr 2008 at 2:44pm |
Seems BT are in trouble over Phorm.
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VulcanB2
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I wasn't! I hope they throw the book at them!! Best regards, Vulcan. |
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MartinW
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Nor I... if we were included in the trial without our consent that's dodgy in my view.
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SimUK
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Hold on. This is the problem with BBC's online reporitng of late (or of all time possibly).
The headline was: BT advert trials were 'illegal'
Seeming to suggest that it was illegal, no doubt about it. Judge decided so and everything.
But the first paragraph gives a bit more detail that puts it in a different context: Trials of an online ad system carried out by BT on its customers were potentially illegal, says a lawyer.
And that suggests that they're just potentially illegal, not actually illegal, and only in the words of a lawyer (who is obviously on the side of supporting the claim/cause they're illegal, where as if you ask a lawyer backing the other side he'd claim they aren't illegal).
Will BBC News run a story "BT advert trials were 'legal'" when a lawyer for BT/Phorm says that he thinks they've done nothing wrong? Probably not.
Someone at the Beeb seems to have a bee in their bonnet about Phorm and wants to bang on the drum of it being illegal and wrong and bad (maybe it is, but aren't the BBC and their news reporting meant to be balanced?) at every possible opportunity. All very boring.
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VulcanB2
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Great! There goes yet more bandwidth to yet more unnecessary technology! It should be illegal for no other reason than bandwidth costs money. If it is going on stuff like this, that puts up costs for operators and owners. If we got rid of this junk, I wonder just how much quicker the 'net would be? Best regards, Vulcan. |
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MartinW
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Yes that’s true Simon, typical media. I was aware of that, seems to be the way they work these days and not just the BBC. Whether illegal or not though many will find it worrying. Especially now that the guideline is that customers must be given the option to opt out. |
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VulcanB2
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But if it is an option to opt OUT, will they make this easy? Knowing BT, no. Best regards, Vulcan. |
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MartinW
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In my view it should be opted out as default, and if you want in you opt in.
Apparently it will be the other way round though.
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