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Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group said: “There are big legal questions surrounding BT’s use of Phorm, so we welcome the EU taking the government to task.
“BT should respect everyone’s privacy and drop their plans to snoop on the internet before they damage their own reputation further. Websites should protect their users and block Phorm now.”
via BBC NEWS | Technology | EC starts legal action over Phorm.
It will be interesting to see how many other sites start demanding that their content is not scanned by Phorm – there is now a public wave of interest over this issue.
This legal action does refer to the trials where consent was not requested – rolling out Phorm would require user acceptance of their data being monitored.
