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The World’s Greatest Blog has been raising concerns for some time regarding the privacy infringements potentially being committed by Phorm and its clients; BT, Talk Talk and Virgin broadband.  It seems now that the EU is the only body capable of  defending UK citizen’s right to privacy. UK privacy law is so broadly drawn, its [...]

Now its time for me to yet again don my Money Saving Genious™ hat and let you know about a great deal which is really rocking the (currently crunched out) banking world: the Alliance & Leicester £100 Current Account Switch Cashback Offer!
That is not an official title, by the way, its just a name that [...]

Thanks to Deal85, our latest online project, you’ll be able to save money on your next online or offline shopping spree using deals & special offers, vouchers & coupons or sales information from the site.
Those of you who are real marketing mavens can submit deals to the site too – thus helping everyone else keep [...]

Zavvi, the rebranded incarnation of the Virgin highstreet music shop has suspended most of its online sales after its supplier was hit by the collapse of Woolworths. Woolworths entered administration a few days ago, taking its DVD and music distribution arm, Entertainment UK Ltd, with it. Entertainment UK Ltd supplies Zavvi and WH Smith who [...]

I seem to find that Tesco’s grocery website doesn’t really work for me. I have successfully ordered several deliveries but sometimes I just can’t get the website to work. It is often unavailable and the special offers never work. It seems to crumble under the sheer weight of products and users but it is just [...]

Following our recent opinion pieces on Phorm, it has come to our attention that on Thursday 10th April, the company posted losses of $32.8 million (£16.6 million) which the it insisted were part of planned investments in infrastructure, people and technology. Last year, Phorm made a loss of $11.6 million -yet somehow they have raised [...]

Enter your postcode to be shown your coverage overlaid on a map. I found this whilst trying to sort out why we keep getting Midlands local news instead of Yorkshire or Tees. The map is quite helpful as it showed us right at the edge of the coverage zone. Follow the link here.

Following our piece on the campaign against Phorm software proposals, I e-mailed my local MP, William Hague, asking him to represent my views to the relevant authorities. A speedy response appeared in the post, direct from the House of Commons. Here is the text of the letter:
Dear Ms Haywood,
Thankyou for your email received 18th March, [...]

BT, Talk Talk and Virgin are all signed up to use Phorm -which reads the websites visited by customers and then targets adverts to them based on the content of those sites. The information which appears on your screen as you browse will be accessible by your ISP -this is almost exactly the [...]

There has been much made of Facebook’s irresponsibility towards the privacy and control of individual’s data over the last couple of months, the main gripe being that it is nigh on impossible to have your account and information permanently deleted. Part of this is due to Facebook having failed to register as a Data Controller [...]