Morally how is this different to phone hacking? Interceptions carried out in the name of profit, with little corporate governance and respect for lawful privacy...

Should Google not be getting the "Murdoch Treatment"?

JFDI

When someone namedrops someone higher up and says "He has said this needs to be pushed through, can you just f***ing Do It!".

JFDI - it ALWAYS goes wrong...

Phorm for Mobiles?

DPI of mobile network traffic with accompanying location information. I'd switch provider first.

Using your "mug" to login

They have facial recognition in Xbox Live, so it may be a move to have that style of technology built into Windows 8 security model. Kinect means it wont be fooled by a cardboard cutout, but a rubber mask or prosthetic makeup may dupe it.

Users don't understand storage costs when wrapped in a service, because world+dog knows 1TB costs £60 from PC world. Not thinking about the additional costs that make up the service, like high availability, DR, the backup hardware costs, manpower costs and paying Iron Mountain to look after your tapes.

Making way for Phorm?

Does this not give BT ammunition for authorising DPI for its subscribers to ensure they are not copyright infringing?

Seems a lot of weak (short?) planks in the defence...

Did it rollover for a greater purpose?

Lies, More Lies & Statistics

As I understand it Insurance uses a LOT of profiling data, and employs a huge degree of statistical maths to generate it's risk profiles.

Those profiles happen to include one for gender, but they also include age, post code, whether you have on street parking and every other question you have to fill in when getting a quote.

You are then given a risk profile which dictates your premium. If we are saying mathematical discriminiation is bad, unfair and there illegal, are we not undermining scientific principles?

So Age risk profiling will be next to be outlawed, and everyones premiums will go up to match the current risk profile of a 17yr old "Boy Racer" as that is the safest financial risk the insurer can offset.

Whilst you can generally manipulate statistics to show the view you want to present, a simple bar chart of value of payouts vs gender is simple, and effective.

Either they do, or they don't present a bigger, or smaller, risk profile, and should be compensated, or not, accordingly.

It doesn't need an OED definition

So should Clarks trademark Shoe Shop?

eh?

"This information has been in the public domain for a year. Plenty of time for the banks to act on it, plenty of time to block the process."

Have you seen the Change Process hoops you have to jump through to get a change approved in a financial institution!

I'm amazed Barclays managed it!

Apple as an MVNO

Why not go the whole hog and do a Virgin and be an MVNO on someone elses backbone. Billing all done through ITunes...

Allowing you to internationally roam without the need for additional hardware, sim etc.

@Roby 1024

"The computers WILL give off heat, it has to go somewhere."

Isn't that the problem of the Cloud Architecture though, using more than one computer to do the job of one computer?

I work for an enterprise client that is heavily into Citrix to deliver thin Applications that are run on full fat desktop machines, these are then left on 24/7 because of bad GPO settings for power management, and the apparent need to schedule client patching out of hours.

If you are going into a Cloud Architecture, you need low powered clients, such as Revo/Lenovo Q Series, otherwise you are not moving the "heat" that a service generates around, you upto doubling it when one user alone is on a Citrix App server.

I've yet to see a convincing arguement for web based applications, which is what these datacentres are being pumped up for, that and serving adverts.