You may remember that a few months ago, the Wikimedia Foundation decided to send an opt out message to Phorm regarding their user-profiling system.

At the time we decided in principle to do the same for our domain - wikimedia.org.uk - but we delayed implementing this until the ownership had been transferred.

Now that the transfer has been completed, we have sent our notice to Phorm, which is copied below. Please note that uk.wikimedia.org has already opted out as this is a subdomain of wikimedia.org, whcih is owned by the Foundation.

Regards,

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Andrew Turvey" andrewrturvey@googlemail.com To: website-exclusion@webwise.com Sent: Tuesday, 7 July, 2009 17:40:37 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Phorm opt-out for Wikimedia.org.uk

To whom it may concern,

Wikimedia UK requests that the following website, owned by us, and all related domains be excluded from scanning by the Phorm / BT Webwise system, as we consider the scanning and profiling of our visitors' bahaviour by a third party to be an infringement on their pirvacy:

wikimedia.org.uk (including all subdomains)

Thank you for your time,

Andrew Turvey Secretary Wikimedia UK Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited. Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom.