BT should face prosecution for its “illegal” trials of a controversial ad-serving technology, a leading computer security researcher has said.Dr Richard Clayton at the University of Cambridge made his comments after reviewing a leaked BT internal report.The document reveals details of a 2006 BT trial with the Phorm system, which matches adverts to users’ web habits.”It’s against the law of the land,” he told BBC News. “We must now expect to see a prosecution.”To read this BBC story in full, see news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7438578.stm.
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