CPS Letter Writing Campaign for the prosecution of BT for the covert trials

Letter Writing Campaign

As many of you know, the CPS Complex Case Centre are now reviewing the
case file regarding the covert trials of Phorm Inc.’s technology carried
out by BT Group PLC in 2006/2007. Part of the review will be to
determine whether or not it is in the public interest to prosecute BT
Group for their actions.

To this end I think it would be very useful to start a new letter writing
campaign to the team that are heading up the investigation to show them
that the public feel it is very much in their interests for BT Group PLC
(and Phorm for being complicit) to be prosecuted for the illegal
interception of over 100 million internet communications during these
trials.

To this end I am requesting everyone write to the following address
expressing their concerns:

Mr Andrew Hadik

Crown Prosecution Service

Complex Casework Centre

50 Ludgate Hill

London

EC4M 7EX

I will be contacting FIPR, ORG, Baroness Miller, Earl of Northesk and
Commissioner Vivian Reding in the next week asking them to write to
Andrew Hadik as well. I would request that people also write to their MP
and request they send a letter of support for the case to Mr Hadik too.

We need to get as many letters of support sent as possible to send a
clear message to the CPS that the public are outraged at BT Group’s
actions in 2006/2007 and would like to see them prosecuted to send a
clear message to the industry that such activity will not be tolerated.

So for the sake of a little bit of time and the cost of a stamp/
stationary - please make an effort as this really is the last chance
outside of EU intervention to have something done about this despicable
situation.

If the CPS decide not to prosecute the only further options are very
expensive (such as Judicial Reviews). So the time to act is now - lets
finally put this to rest and see public justice served. Feel free to
post this appeal on any web site or social network you use.

Author: Alexander Hanff

https://nodpi.org/2008/11/27/letter-writing-campaign/

New Poll at Toluna regarding Phorm/Webwise deployment

Participate in the poll at Toluna.com. The following question is asked:

"What is your opinion of the UK authorities response to BT's covert trials and the ongoing deployment of Phorm's Webwise technology?"

It is a multiple-choice poll, and you can tick more than one choice.

The poll is here:

http://tinyurl.com/webwise-poll

BT Community Forums locked due to data leakage

In case anyone is a regular on BT's Community Forums, found here:

http://beta.bt.com/bta/forums/index.jspa

and was wondering why they have been unable to post, the answer can
be found here:

https://nodpi.org/forum/index.php/topic,304.0.html

I suggest reading the whole thread. Basically, BT's forum software was
found to be leaking personal profile information. After frantically trying
to disable each feature which leaked information, the mods (or someone higher
up) decided to make the whole forum read-only until they resolved the issue.

It you are a member, it is possible that your email address was leaked and is searchable on Google.

Sign the new 10 Downing Street Petition

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stop ISPs from using other peoples copywrited data to make money through targetted advertising."

Someone has started a new 10 Downing Street petition which is directly relevant to the way Phorm's spyware operates.

Please sign the new petition here:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/target-ad-copy/

If you haven't already signed the 'old' petition, please do so here:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ispphorm/

Entity-Relationship diagram of BT and Phorm

Here is a work in progress of BT and Phorm and the relationships they have between them and with other groups.

It is far from complete, and this link will be updated from time to time as the diagram is updated.

http://img295.imageshack.us/my.php?image=phormumlly3.jpg

BT's AGM Meeting in London July 16th

Report from the Barbican Protest

Our man 'Dephormation' reports from the inside of the BT AGM in London:

http://www.dephormation.org.uk/?page=27

Report BT Webwise as a phishing scam

In Firefox, you can report the BT Webwise page as a phishing scam:

First, go to the BT Webwise page:

http://www.webwise.bt.com/webwise/index.php

Then, in Firefox, go to the 'Help' menu, and select the 'Report Web Forgery' menu item.