Neowin News Feed for: Phorm

European Commission contends UK over online privacy

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:26:43 +0000

According to BBC technology, the UK government has been accused by the European Commission for failing to protect the citizens' privacy. The European Commission stated that the UK government should have done more to guarantee... Read more...

Phorm shares plummet due to BT putting them on hold

Sam Alderwick — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:52:51 +0000

Phorm, the controversial online advertising company, has watched its share prices plummet by 40 percent as BT made announcements that they had "taken a step out of Phorm". Although BT stated they were still interested... Read more...

BT and Virgin Media to press ahead with Phorm

Tom Warren — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:06:44 +0000

Stock prices of Phorm, a controversial targeted advertising company, rose as much as 40% in trading yesterday. Phorm deliver targeted advertising based on user browsing habits by using deep packet inspection. The method has... Read more...

New Phorm trial begins

Tom Warren — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:29:10 +0000

BT has restarted its Phorm trial despite huge privacy concerns. The Phorm system allows BT to track and monitor every website that a user visits. BT puts this information into a database and is then... Read more...

Phorm gets UK government backing

Tom Warren — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:49:50 +0000

Phorm has received it's biggest endorsement yet - a statement from the UK government declaring its controversial ad targeting technology legal. The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has released a statement to... Read more...

BT questioned by police over Phorm trials

Brian Maher — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:12:16 +0000

British police are currently questioning the company in order to determine whether it's trials of Phorm (both past and planned) are actually illegal. This is not the first time that BT have been caught short... Read more...