By silicon.com staff, 30 October 2009 14:40
NEWS
The European Commission has said the UK government doesn't have adequate communications privacy legislation and must step up its efforts.
The announcement follows complaints by UK citizens and privacy groups over the government's lack of action after telco BT conducted trials of the Phorm behavioural advertising service without getting consent from its customers.
The EC has criticised the UK government for failing to uphold European privacy laws
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For more, see UK failed to protect privacy over Phorm, says EC on ZDNet UK.
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1. karen challinor
they won't
or more precisely they will come up with some form of legislation that takes away any privacy we currently have and then tell us that this is somehow better