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Complaints about the British advertising company Phorm.

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• BBC News: EC Starts Legal Action on Phorm

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7998009.stm
  The European Commission begins legal action over the way online advertising technology Phorm has been tested in the UK.

• BBC News: Home Office 'Colluded with Phorm'

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8021661.stm
  The Home Office is accused of collaborating with online ad system Phorm on "informal guidance" over whether the service broke UK law.

• BBC News: UK Government Responds on Phorm

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7619297.stm
  A controversial ad-serving system can be rolled out in the UK but only under strict guidelines, says the government.

• BBC News: UK Questioned on Online Ad System

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7542810.stm
  The UK government has been given a month to respond to EU concerns over Phorm.

• Dephormation

  http://www.dephormation.org.uk/
  Provides information and suggested solutions to web users and website owners to block their information from the Phorm system, including a Firefox extension.

• Light Blue Touchpaper: The Phorm "Webwise" System

  http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/04/04/the-phorm-webwise-system/
  Blog post by Richard Clayton giving his views on the system following a meeting with Phorm officials.

• No Deep Packet Inspection

  https://nodpi.org/
  A campaign against the clickstream analysis used by Phorm and other similar advertising networks.

• Phormwatch

  http://phormwatch.blogspot.com/
  Blog providing news and tracking companies connected with Phorm's system and trials thereof.

• Phormwatch

  http://phormwatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
  Blog providing news and tracking companies connected with Phorm's system and trials thereof.

• The Open Rights Group: Call for Major Websites to opt out of Phorm

  http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/03/open-letter-call-for-major-websites-to-opt-out-of-phorm/
  An open letter, sent to the Chief Privacy Officers at major websites calling for them to protect their users by preventing data sent to their users being profiled.

• The Phorm "Webwise" System

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/080404phorm.pdf
  Paper by Richard Clayton, providing technical details of the proposed system following a meeting with Phorm engineers.

• The Phorm "Webwise" System - A Legal Analysis

  http://www.fipr.org/080423phormlegal.pdf
  Paper by Nicholas Bohm, in which he argues that the proposed system is likely to fall foul of data interception, privacy, data protection, and fraud laws in the UK.

• The Register: The Phorm files

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/29/phorm_roundup/
  Links to articles published by The Register covering developments in the Phorm system and activism against it.

• Wikipedia: Phorm

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorm
  Encyclopedia article about the company and its proposed services.

 

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