UK protesters to picket shareholders at BT annual general meeting - 16th July 2008

On 16th July 2008 there will be a full day protest against the use of
Deep Packet Inspection for the purpose of behavioural profiling.

The event will focus on the plans by BT PLC, Virgin Media and
Car Phone Warehouse to introduce deep packet inspection technologies
through exclusive contracts with Phorm Inc.

Since Phorm issued a press release on 14th February 2008
regarding these exclusive contracts there has been a storm of
outrage amongst the public, leading academics, privacy advocates,
Members of Parliament, Members of the European Parliament,
Peers in the House of Lords and the industry as whole.

The technology has been called illegal by Foundation for Information
Policy Research, which was recently supported by a statement from
the European Commission.

As a result of the negative publicity generated over the past 3 months
Phorm Inc.'s share price has plummeted by approx 70% and
continues to struggle to develop confidence from investors.

In 2006/2007 BT PLC have admitted to running covert trials of the
technology without first obtaining the consent from customers
required by EU and UK Data Protection and Communications
regulations, directives and legislation. However, to date neither the
Information Commissioner nor the Secretary of State have held
BT PLC to account for these allegedly illegal actions.

Therefore, the growing public campaign to seek justice for the
victims of these covert trials and the wider mission of stopping
the technology from being deployed, has led to an organised

one day protest in London, UK.

There is expected to be a significant press and media presence at
the event which will begin at the Barbican Centre, continue on to
BT Centre (BT's corporate HQ) and finally end with a march on to
Charing Cross Metropolitan Police Station in the early evening.

On arrival at the Metropolitan Police station a full case file with witness
testimonies and supporting evidence, along with a petition
demanding a criminal investigation will be handed to the senior officer on duty.

For more details about the event, please visit the following two web sites:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05..._phorm_protest
http://www.nodpi.org

If you require further information please contact me by reply.

Sincerely,

Alexander Hanff
University of Cumbria

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you can contact Alexander Hanff on the URL story above and the http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12/33628733-virgin-me... thread.