'UK telco BT has admitted that it used business customers’ data in a trial run for market research software without having asked for permission to do so. Affected customers are considering legal action against the company, saying that BT’s actions compromised data security.
'In 2007, a BT Business customer alerted the media after noticing that business transactions he conducted online using BT’s services were being redirected to an unknown URL. When quizzed, the company denied that any such redirects were occurring.' (Information Age article).
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