Keeping you inPhormed...
Seems that just maybe the Information Commissioner has grown a pair after all....
Information Commissioner: Phorm must be opt-in only - not great, but it's a start at least, although it completely fails to address the point that an intercept still requires the permissions of both parties (customer and web=page provider), even if the system is allowed to go ahead with a customer opt-in.
And in case our friends across the pond thought this was just fun and games in the UK, seems US companies are already ahead of the UK furore. Not sure that the privacy laws and legislation on interception don't make it easier to do over there too.
Will the last one off the WWW please turn the light out...
(as usual, appended to the main Phorm collection to keep it all together)
Information Commissioner: Phorm must be opt-in only - not great, but it's a start at least, although it completely fails to address the point that an intercept still requires the permissions of both parties (customer and web=page provider), even if the system is allowed to go ahead with a customer opt-in.
And in case our friends across the pond thought this was just fun and games in the UK, seems US companies are already ahead of the UK furore. Not sure that the privacy laws and legislation on interception don't make it easier to do over there too.
Will the last one off the WWW please turn the light out...
(as usual, appended to the main Phorm collection to keep it all together)