BT say they'll need 300 extra servers just to run the Phorm system, its not just the privacy issues, performance will be affected too. Phorm's horrible cookie handling will clog up the system both ends. I would advise anyone concerned about this to listen to episode 151 of Security Now http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

Isn't journalism marvellous?
"Campaigners picketed BT's annual general meeting" - less than 12 people turnes up, hardly a public outcry eh?
"but an anticipated second round of BT trials has not materialised at the time of going to press. " - the THIRD round of trials started on 30th September.
Sorry, poor show all round much the same as the rest of the hysteria surrounding this issue.

This third trial may have started but it's the only one that wasn't secret. The other 2 trials intercepted users browsing secretly in contravention of RIPA .
As for the campaigners at the BT AGM, a few campaigners enlightening shareholders and asking questions is worth far more than a rabble shouting and marching up and down.

droogie
perhaps you can prove phorm does not store personally information as defined by the data protection act, for instance if you look at a black car page only the word black is stored with no context, is that refering the colour car or our your race, if you look at male or female connector will that be stored and used as connector or gender?

there is no way phorm can say no PI is stored, there are many other possible examples,

as to the protest over 1500 leaflets were given out at BT's agm, questions asked inside of the director, which got poorly answered after hasty phone calls to legal advice, no shareholders where inconvienienced by large numbers, so a very effective and peaceful protest.

as to the third trial, 3 days in and not a single posting on the net that a single instance of the invitation page has been spotted in the wild, oh and by the way the screen shots of said page have already changed at least twice, and one was of a page displayed in a safari browser said not to be compaitble with webwise??

on financial forums there has been many attempts to ramp the shares saying they will fly once trial announce, this has come and gone and they are still very thinly traded at under £7.00

the sooner BT drop this dodo the better, but i will still leave as soon as my contract is up as i no longer trust them not to pull another similar stunt in the future
Peter

i missed a point, BT will not check the credentials of the user that accept the first invitation to ensure they are the primary account holder, and so legally the only person to be able to enact the change to the contract to make phorms interception of web traffic "legal".

instead they are saying it is up to the primary account holder to inform "ALL" users on his network, including visitors of webwise and how they should respond.

this is not what the ICO said was required

also they can't do a check on the credentials because the invitation page is hosted on a server run by phorm, outside the BT network, so unless BT want to fall foul of DPA by giving a third party (phorm) access to there customer database their appears no way to do this

a very well thought out system i think

on last point it has also been said that the full release of phorm / BT Webwise may be opt-out, again in direct contradiction of what the ICO said was required for phorm / BT Webwise to be legal under UK / EU law