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European Commission contends UK over online privacy


server: neowin.net - 03.11.2009

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According to BBC technology, the UK government has been accused by the European Commission for failing to protect the citizens& 39; privacy. The European Commission stated that the UK government should have done more to guarantee and secure online privacy when trials of a controversial ad-serving system were carried out back in 2006. The ad-serving system in question, was tested in 2006 by a company known as Phorm. BT, Talk Talk and Virgin had all signed up to use Phorm, which targets adverts to users based on web habits.

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