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BT caught spying - 4/3/2008 11:43:08 AM

LadyEllen

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British Telecom are in trouble with the Information Commissioner - for spying on the internet surfing habits of their customers.

The spying was done anonymously, but critically without the permission or knowledge of the customers. When customers noticed what was going on and contacted BT, they were told that the problem must be a virus - nothing to do with BT.

Apparently all this was a trial of some software designed to spy on surfing habits to profile customers' interests, so they could be spammed with adverts that met their interests.

Great isnt it? And of course, there is nothing to fear.

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RE: BT caught spying - 4/3/2008 11:49:27 AM

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Charming

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RE: BT caught spying - 4/3/2008 12:02:24 PM

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Yah but we in america, you know the place with a constitution that we can wipe our asses with? That place? Well we upstaged ya all in the uk when we had att and verizon routing literally everythign through the nsa on their main trunks.

Then when they got busted well congress simply gave them immunity along with bushco for constitutional violations and war crimes.

So TOP THAT! har!

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RE: BT caught spying - 4/3/2008 2:10:40 PM

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Fuck you mean they know about my umbrella fetish? All I'm saying is I like them pointy.

Damn perverts.

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RE: BT caught spying - 4/3/2008 3:31:25 PM

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donate your wages to the ceo, heck why not? we do other CEOs

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RE: BT caught spying - 4/3/2008 3:46:19 PM

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Lady Ellen i thought this had long been the case, with firms reading your cookies, then sending ads based on that. Whats more of a worry to me is that financial transactions over the net are not totally secure, and criminals can hack into supermarket computer files and get ones credit card details ect.

A lot of this spying on Pc`s goes back to the war on terror issue. Sooner or later they will be able to check just about everything we do. Legislation is needed now.

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RE: BT caught spying - 4/3/2008 5:12:07 PM

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Lady Ellen i thought this had long been the case, with firms reading your cookies, then sending ads based on that.

....while unsavoury, in the past it was barely legal...(read the fine print in the various TOS). The problem this time is that there was no consent.

(edited for poor spelling)

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