BT’s ‘illegal’ 2007 Phorm trial profiled tens of thousands
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BT’s covert trial of Phorm’s ISP adware technology in summer 2007 involved tracking many thousands more customers without their knowledge than previously reported, it’s emerged.
Erroneous reports earlier this month suggested that a total of 36,000 broadband lines had been eavesdropped upon during the two trials. The Register had revealed that 18,000 customers were profiled in 2006, but no figure was released for the second experiment.
Today Phorm said the 2007 trial was actually performed on “tens of thousands” of lines. It refused to provide a specific figure, but at the absolute least there are 38,000 BT Retail customers unaware their communications have been allegedly criminally intercepted in the last two years. The number could be as high as 108,000.
108,000 criminal violations, and nobody arrested yet. It’s nice to be a big corporation these days.
Oh, and if you’re a BT customer, and they complain about your bandwidth usage, just claim it is really “very small”.
Using their definition of “small”, of course.
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