Britain’s CPS under attack over BT and Phorm’s covert online monitoring

Privacy groups have attacked the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) after it decided not to prosecute BT and Phorm for secretly tracking the online habits of 18,000 internet users.BT and Phorm sparked a privacy backlash in 2006 and 2007 when it emerged that the companies were covertly trialling software that tracked peoples’ internet behaviour in order to deliver targeted advertising. BT, the UK’s largest broadband provider, ditched the controversial system in 2009.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/11/cps-bt-phorm-appealAlso see:Privacy activist to challenge BT, Phorm decision [IDG]
A privacy activist plans to ask for a judicial review of British prosecutors’ decision not to bring a case against BT and the online advertising company Phorm for running secret trials of a system that monitored peoples’ Internet use without their consent.Alexander Hanff, who has tracked the case for more than three years and now works for Privacy International, said he has three months to file for a judicial review.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/041311-privacy-activist-to-challenge-bt.html
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/225006/.html