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BBC confirms it hosts UK government sites
See BBC and the UK government are in cahoots.
The confirmation came from a representative of the BBC's Internet Operations unit, called BBC Technology.
He said that some websites for the UK Office of National Statistics are hosted by BBC Technology. This is a subsidiary of the organisation which not only provides such services to the BBC itself, but also sells such services to third parties, including the government.
He said: "The aim of this is for BBC Technology to make money which can then be fed into the BBC to make bigger and better programmes".
Many people are under the impression that the BBC is funded by the UK licence fee, which costs £116 a year. On the BBC web site, the organisation says that the BBC's public services are available to all, free of adverts and independent of commercial or political interests. BBC TV programmes in India carry advertising.
The BBC also hosts Scottish Development, according to this Netcraft page.
Other BBC Services, including the World Service, are not financed by the licence fee - but partially paid by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
But what's a little worrying, as we reported yesterday, is the close connection of the Office of National Statistics with elements of the BBC web site itself. Both the ONC and the BBC have privacy statements .
"National Statistics will not disclose your e-mail address to any third parties without first obtaining your permission."
And "In general, any information you provide to the BBC will only be used within the BBC and by its service providers. It will never be supplied to anyone outside the BBC without first obtaining your consent, unless we are obliged or permitted by law to disclose it."
The question now has got to be what other commercial or governmental sites share Interweb premises with the Beeb. µ
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