The Guardian: BT drops Phorm targeted ad service after customers cry foul over privacy: BT has decided not to go ahead with rolling out Phorm’s ad-targeted Webwise system to its 4.8m broadband customers. BT said that not using the technology, which uses information on which sites a user visits to help target them with relevant advertising, was down to its need to save resources ahead of its £1.5bn investment in super-fast broadband

The Guardian: ‘Congrats to Uncle C’ – how his wife’s Facebook page exposed new MI6 head: This follows Milliband playing down the issue on the Andrew Marr show yesterday.

Media Guardian: Complaints to rise at the Advertising Standards Authority, despite number of adverts falling: Guy Parker, new CEO of the Advertising Standards Authority, believes complaints this year will top last year’s record figure. The regulator’s chief told MediaGuardian: “We’re heading for about 30,000 complaints, but about fewer ad campaigns than last year.” Last year 26,433 complaints were made to the ASA, about 15,556 ads.

Silicon: 50p broadband tax ‘will leave 20 pc of UK without fibre’:  David Campbell, BT Openreach’s MD of next-generation access, said that BT will deploy a mixture of fibre to the premises and fibre to the cabinet for next-generation access – with P or C being chosen depending on the economies of each exchange

FT.com: UK venture capital: Nothing ventured, nothing gained. The UK government’s recent decision to invest £150m in a new venture fund is the latest attempt to help British start-ups navigate a death zone formed by a lack of mid- to late-stage funding. Its goal – to drum up £1bn of public and private funding for start-ups over 10 years – is laudable. But it is unlikely to make much difference.