BT’s Phorm trial – the worst excuse ever

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Why didn’t BT tell the Information Commissioner about its Phorm trial in 2006? Because it was worried about the privacy implications? No, because it was a bit techy, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

“BT did not discuss these trials with the ICO as they were technical in nature,” the ICO claims in a statement sent to PC Pro.

Considering that pretty much every piece of personal data  is now held on a computer database somewhere, is there anything left that isn’t too “technical in nature” for our poor Information Commissioner, which is presumably waiting for Mrs Miggins from the corner shop to lose her paper-round book before clamping down with the full force of our stringent data laws?