[Nottingham] ISP Network data deep sniffing for?... [Fwd: Protesters to Picket Shareholders at BT PLC AGM]]

[Martin]

Folks,

If you thought spam and directed Marketing was bad enough now, well it
looks like our major ISPs wish to invade your every internet and email
action to sell your details onwards...

Ever dare to put a name or a phone number into an email or onto a web
form again?...


I think that this should clearly be against our UK Data Protection Act.
But then again... It likely will not be enforced unless there is enough
noise made from those that care...

Regards,
Martin

ISP: Internet Service Provider, your broadband connection supplier


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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 - Protesters to Picket
	Shareholders at BT PLC AGM

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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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