Outrage as new Phorm trial begins

Courtesy guardian.co.uk Technology  Tue, 09/30/2008 - 04:21

BT is to restart trials of a controversial internet advertising system that has outraged privacy campaigners.

Britain's biggest internet service provider said it would begin a new trial affecting thousands of customers starting today, despite the fact that two earlier secret experiments involving the technology prompted outcry and a police investigation

The system, known as Webwise, allows BT to potentially track and monitor every website that a customer visits, allowing it to build detailed behavioural profiles of web...


 

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