Bad Behaviour?
OpinionWire Articles
Angela Eager - Published 19/06/2008
Last month the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) advised BT that it would not take action over an alleged breach of European Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) following complaints of BT’s trial use of a third-party service in 2006, which monitored individual Internet users' browsing patterns in order to serve up targeted advertising, without the individuals’ consent. This month it emerged that the European Commission (EC) was thinking about taking the ICO to task over its deci…