Virgin start trials of Detica Cview, the new Phorm

Virgin Media is set to delve into users’ traffic looking for copyright infringement, in the online equivalent of opening your post and not telling you. It’s the first ISP to try deep packet inspection with the controversial Detica CView technology, which will ascertain levels of illegal music file sharing across the Virgin network.

They’re watching …

A House of Lords report has warned that the growth of surveillance is one of the most significant changes in British society since the second world war.

Planes grounded by ‘Conflicker virus’

Apparently in the past two weeks, some French fighter planes were grounded because the military had failed to take sufficient action (even though Microsoft had sent advance warning) to prevent the spread of a Windows-transmitted virus that some call Conficker and the Liberation journalist, Jean-Dominique Merchet, calls Conflicter.

Downadup/Conflicker Worm Is an Epidemic

The Downadup/Conflicker worm is striking back, and its assault has affected 10 million PCs this week alone.

Analysts expect Conficker virus activation

Security watchers are bracing themselves to respond to the activitation of the huge botnet created by the Conficker superworm.

Google in targeted marketing rules talks

Online publishers and technology firms are thrashing out proposals to self-regulate behaviourally targeted, online marketing.

Police to poke around PCs without permission

They straightened our bananas, they robbed us of our imperial measurements and now the EU has set in motion a series of events that will allow the police to hack into your PC without permission.

Prosecutors gather evidence on secret BT – Phorm trials

‘Implied consent’ to be probed

Two Conferences Raise Concerns over Phorm

There’s been a lot of activity on the Phorm front recently, both from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) ‘Privacy by Design’ conference in Manchester and from a ‘Behavioural Targeting: the Fire and the Fury’ debate at the University of Westminster.

BT behaviour ‘bad Phorm’

BT trials of Phorm technology have ‘rubbed people up the wrong way’, one industry expert has said.