[Wiltshire] Re: Wiltshire Digest, Vol 13, Issue 4

[Andrew Carter]

For those that are interested there are quite a few things you can to to 
protect yourself against phorm, see here

http://addiator.blogspot.com/2008/03/thwarting-phorm.html

and here,

http://www.dephormation.org.uk/

There are also lots of plugins for Firefox you can use such as Addblock Plus 
and Google Search bar tool, which will help protect you. Also there are a 
number of petitions and one at 10 Downing Street you can sign up to. But 
protest for sure.

Andy

On Saturday 31 May 2008 12:15:11 wiltshire-request at mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:
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>    1. Fwd: Press Release - Prostesters to Picket Shareholders	at BT
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> Subject: [Wiltshire] Fwd: Press Release - Prostesters to Picket
> 	Shareholders	at BT PLC AGM
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>  ----- Forwarded message from S0107981 at Cumbria.ac.uk -----
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>  To: admin at lug.org.uk
>  From: S0107981 at Cumbria.ac.uk
>  Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 23:23:56 +0100
>  Cc:
>  Subject: [admin] [Feedback] Press Release - Prostesters to Picket
>         Shareholders at BT PLC AGM
>
>  Alexander Hanff sent a message using the contact form at
>  http://lug.org.uk/contact.
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>  I know this is not Linux related, but I am a long term and well known
> Linux user here in the UK so I thought maybe you guys could support me by
> posting this out to your lists and newsletters:
>
>  Press Release - Immediate Release
>
>  Protesters to Picket shareholders at BT PLC Annual General Meeting - 16th
>  July 2008
>
>  On 16th July 2008 there will be a full day protest against the use of Deep
>  Packet Inspection for the purpose of behavioural profiling.  The event
> will focus on the plans by BT PLC, Virgin Media and Car Phone Warehouse to
> introduce deep packet inspection technologies through exclusive contracts
> with Phorm Inc.
>
>  Since Phorm issued a press release on 14th February 2008 regarding these
>  exclusive contracts there has been a storm of outrage amongst the public,
>  leading academics, privacy advocates, Members of Parliament, Members of
> the European Parliament, Peers in the House of Lords and the industry as
> whole. The technology has been called illegal by Foundation for Information
> Policy Research, which was recently supported by a statement from the
> European Commission.
>
>  As a result of the negative publicity generated over the past 3 months
>  Phorm Inc.'s share price has plummeted by approx 70% and continues to
>  struggle to develop confidence from investors.
>
>  In 2006/2007 BT PLC have admitted to running covert trials of the
>  technology without first obtaining the consent from customers required by
>  EU and UK Data Protection and Communications regulations, directives and
>  legislation.  However, to date neither the Information Commissioner nor
> the Secretary of State have held BT PLC to account for these allegedly
> illegal actions.
>
>  Therefore, the growing public campaign to seek justice for the victims of
>  these covert trials and the wider mission of stopping the technology from
>  being deployed, has led to an organised one day protest in London, UK.
>  There is expected to be a significant press and media presence at the
> event which will begin at the Barbican Centre, continue on to BT Centre
> (BT's corporate HQ) and finally end with a march on to Charing Cross
> Metropolitan Police Station in the early evening.  On arrival at the
> Metropolitan Police station a full case file with witness testimonies and
> supporting evidence, along with a petition demanding a criminal
> investigation will be handed to the senior officer on duty.
>
>  For more details about the event, please visit the following two web
>  sites:
>
>  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/30/bt_agm_phorm_protest
>  http://www.nodpi.org
>
>  If you require further information please contact me by reply.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Alexander Hanff
>  University of Cumbria
>
>
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