BT, Webwise and Phorm: What you need to know

Briefing

Channel 4 report: BT 'spies' on customers
includes the experience of one BT customer who was an unwitting participant in the 2007 trials and also a grilling for BT's Emma Sanderson

BT Click
Phorm's CEO, Kent Ertugrul and IT specialist and critic of Phorm, Alexander Hanff put their points of view on the controversial targeted ads system

The Economist article on online advertising (5th June 2008)

FIPR Legal Analysis of Phorm (23 April 2008)
Concludes that deployment by an ISP of the Phorm architecture will involve breaches of three separate major laws and other illegalities, for which ISPs will be primarily liable and for which Phorm Inc will be liable as an inciter.

Alexander Hanff's analysis of the BT Trials

Dr Richard Clayton calls for prosecutions (BBC, 5th June 2008)

Phone Calls UK extensive Q&A on BT Webwise

Following pressure from Congress, US ISP Charter shelves NebuAd, a scheme similar to Phorm (Washington Post 25 Jun 08)

... and shortly afterwards, US ISP CenturyTel shelves NebuAd, a scheme similar to Phorm (The Register 30 Jun 08)

Animation of how copyright law applies to web sites

Background to Phorm, formerly known as 121Media, the company providing Webwise to BT

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