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Submission + - Complaint to FSA on Phorm's statements to market (nodpi.org)

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AlexanderHanff
AlexanderHanff writes: "NoDPI have sent a letter of complaint to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) regarding Phorm Inc.'s statements to the press and market news services regarding support of legal compliance from various UK Government Departments and Regulators.

Phorm claim that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the Home Office and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR or BERR) have all cleared Phorm's WebWise technology as being fully compliant under UK and EU Law.

This is contrary to action taken by the European Commission earlier this week, who have initiated legal proceedings against the UK Government specifically for failing to uphold and enforce EU Privacy Directives regarding Phorm's covert trials with BT in 2006/2007.

Furthermore, NoDPI have produced statements from DBERR, ICO and the Home Office which contradict Phorm's statements to the press and market news services this week.

NoDPI are calling for the FSA to investigate whether or not Phorm's statements to the market can be seen as breaking the rules of trading as they are misleading and could even be interpretted as fraudulant."

Comment Re:No,he is very clever :) (Score 1) 705

by oh_bugger (#27467851) Attached to: Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World
War has changed. Its no longer about nations, ideologies, ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles fought by mercenaries and machines. War and its consumption of life has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodys enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, Infomation control, Emotion control, Battlefield control. Everything is monitored and kept under control.

Comment Re:Going against the grain... (Score 1) 569

by oh_bugger (#27281347) Attached to: Programming Language Specialization Dilemma
The fact is managing resources isn't as essential anymore for software to work. You can write software which is constantly dividing and the user wouldn't notice any slow down. Nowadays the biggest (well, most sensible) requirement is modularity for future growth of the software. Companies look for people who can write code which will be useful to the company over and over again. They don't want to hire programmers who will be completely rewriting projects every time the spec changes. This is the current state of typical software companies writing apps for businesses. Resource management isn't usually considered when hiring a new dev unless they're developing something high performance or low level.
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