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In the UK British Telecom set up an ad service called Phorn that monitored your browsing and replaced ads with targeted ones from it's own suppliers. A huge pu
by tyhjnmyh 16y ago
In the UK British Telecom set up an ad service called Phorn that monitored your browsing and replaced ads with targeted ones from it's own suppliers.
A huge public backlash when it replaced charity "save the children" ads with ones inviting you to buy interesting videos of schoolgirls, caused it reconsider what had only been 'a trial concept'
The courts decided it had broken just about all the privacy/wiretapping laws but nothing to do with copyright.
Naturally it got off with a warning under the 'laws don't really apply to big telecoms companies" amendment.