BT Drops Phorm, Citing More Pressing Priorities 94
Tom DBA notes a story up at The Register that begins "BT has abandoned plans to roll out Phorm's controversial web monitoring and profiling system across its broadband network, claiming it needs to concentrate resources on network upgrades... BT's announcement comes a day before MPs and peers of the All Party Parliamentary Communications Group are due to begin an investigation of Internet privacy. Their intervention follows the EU's move to sue the UK government over its alleged failure... properly [to] implement European privacy laws with respect to the trials, drawing further bad publicity to the venture." We've discussed Phorm many times in the past.
How do we know (Score:4, Funny)
How do we know Phorm didn't use deep packet inspection/manipulation to show us this article while in fact it's not there.....
Now I still have to find an appropriate Matrix quote and my tin foil hat.
Re:Not BitTorrent (Score:3, Funny)
At one time people were jokingly calling them Bombay Telecom. At least until India changed the name of the city.
Re:Not BitTorrent (Score:3, Funny)
awwwwwwww go throw your toys out the pram
BT has been around since the 1980's and operates in over 170 countries....
I think that beats bit torrent...
guys, please stop calling it BP, for most of the world BP is Brooklyn Philharmonic
-errrr ... NOOOOO!
Re:Not BitTorrent (Score:3, Funny)
I often confuse AT&T with running my old modem in test mode