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'UK must up privacy safeguards following Phorm'

News in brief: Government must boost privacy safeguards

Tags: european commission, uk government, phorm

By silicon.com staff

Published: 30 October 2009 14:40 GMT

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
(Photo credit: rockcohen via Flickr under the following Creative Commons Licence)

For more, see UK failed to protect privacy over Phorm, says EC on ZDNet UK.

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