Phorm CEO Interview

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:09:08 +0000

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hear an extended version of that interview here

At about 12 minutes in, there's some fascinating prevaricating which  
sort-of implies that Phorm are causing operations on `their' cookies  
in your browser to be carried out apparently by the website (not  
signed up to OIX) that you're looking at.  Hard to follow quite what  
was meant, but if browsing to website X via a Phorm-infected ISP  
causes any operations to be carried out that wouldn't otherwise have  
been carried out by website X then that's surely a legal problem.

At about 23 minutes in he repeatedly refers to Privacy International  
as having audited his company, and then rejects the conception that  
Simon Davies of 80/20 is anything other than Simon Davies of Privacy  
International.  Were I Simon Davies, I think I'd have a word with my  
client to point out that I employed 80/20, not PI or the LSE.

ian

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there's some fascinating prevaricating which sort-of implies that Phorm =
are causing operations on `their' cookies in your browser to be carried =
out apparently by the website (not signed up to OIX) that you're looking =
at. &nbsp;Hard to follow quite what was meant, but if browsing to =
website X via a Phorm-infected ISP causes any operations to be carried =
out that wouldn't otherwise have been carried out by website X then =
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repeatedly refers to Privacy International as having audited his =
company, and then rejects the conception that Simon Davies of 80/20 is =
anything other than Simon Davies of Privacy International. &nbsp;Were I =
Simon Davies, I think I'd have a word with my client to point out that I =
employed 80/20, not PI or the LSE.</div><div><br =
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