Here are Wikileaks links to a number of documents no longer available at the original websites - either because they were leaked or because Phorm made a takedown demand and they were removed (without any court action) The Which Computer article removed due to a Phorm legal threat
http://wlstorage.net/file/which-survey-2009.pdf The British Telecom "Phorm" report: PageSense External Validation Report
http://wlstorage.net/file/bt-phorm-report-2007.pdf UK data regulator initial statement on Phorm removed from their website
http://wlstorage.net/file/final-ico-statment-on-phorm-2008.pdf Early Astaire Brokers note promoting Phorm's product
http://wlstorage.net/file/phorm-astaire-2009.pdf Wikileaks page with article links above
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The taken down ICO/Data Regulator article referred to in my previous post, contains evidence that Phorm misled the UK Information Commissioner. The article includes the quote, "
Although the products have not yet been rolled out and the upcoming trial by one ISP has not yet taken place,"
That statement is NOT TRUE - actually two secret trials involving BT customers had taken place without the customers being told their communications were being intercepted. One of those trials is described in the PageSense report described in the previous post. Someone was lying.
In the Which article which was also subject to a takedown following legal threat by Phorm, Phorm objected to the words, "
This profile is then sold to advertisers" which followed the sentence "
Webwise... builds an anonymous profile of your interests"
I have included the Astaire Brokers note for light relief. It makes amazing predictions about Phorm, and is wrong in almost every respect. Because of spin like this, a lot of people lost a lot of money investing in Phorm. The shares went to UKP35 on rumours of their UK ISP deals. Once their secret trials became public knowledge, that was it for the shares, and they are now trading at 83 UK PENCE (about 2% of their peak value, and about 4% of what these brokers were predicting). The bnrokers predicted massive profits in 2010 and 2011. In fact what really happened was that there was NO income in those years, let alone profit, and Phorm had to ask for more cash. They are STILL asking for more cash. They needed UKP7m to finance their Turkish operation. They are STILL not making any money.
The story of Phorm is a story of optimistic predictions, spin, promises, public protests, and Phorm's repeated failure to deliver on its promises to shareholders and cash investors. Many of the promises and statements Phorm made to the public, to the markets, to regulators and to the press, can now be PROVED to be untrue or misleading.
Their biggest deception is around consent.
The truth is that communications are intercepted at a network level without the consent of either party to the communication.
The spin is that users are offered "unmissable choice" - (to receive targeted advertising). Consenting to receive adverts is not the same as consenting to interception of communications. Does the badly designed gezinti.com page explain that communications are being intercepted by deep packet inspection? Of course it doesn't.
Enjoy the articles!
There is a very big difference.
