You already know I don’t like Phorm. You already know I don’t like the activities of the incumbents in the Home Office. Mind-bogglingly, they have been involved in joint “corruption”, according to this article.
The Home Office asked a private company (Phorm) for advice in drafting a document stating the Home Office’s own views on the company’s possibly-illegal internet interception product. Phorm were, it seems, allowed to edit the Home Office statement to meet Phorm’s own requirements. Yes, that’s right. A government’s official views on a controversial project initiated by a private company were prepared by that company.
These two entities should have no such relationship. This is corruption, pure and simple. It’s sadly what you expect from a private company, since they are profit-driven, but this is behaviour that should not be tolerated in government. Please, please, please vote them out when the general election takes place next year.
On a slightly lighter note, and in what at face value looks like a sudden outbreak of common sense, former Home Secretary David Blunkett has said that the ID Cards project should be scrapped. He must have been blind not to have seen that this was a sensible position to take previously. (Yes, terrible joke/pun … apologies)