BT Drops Phorm, Citing More Pressing Priorities

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.

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Re:Not BitTorrent

[Hurricane78]

BT (BitTorrent) operates in ALL countries, and even on space stations. And it has way more "customers" than the British Telecom.

Hell, all those broadband connections would not be needed, were it not for BitTorrent.

So who is beating who here? ^^