After some internal discussion on whether opting out of the Phorm user-profiling system in the UK would legitimize it, we're going ahead and requesting an opt-out for all the domains under the Wikimedia Foundation's control.

For background see eg: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/03/22/open-letter-call-for-major-website...

-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Phorm opt-out for Wikipedia.org and related domains Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:28:11 -0700 From: Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org To: website-exclusion@webwise.com CC: private-l@lists.wikimedia.org

To whom it may concern --

The Wikimedia Foundation requests that our web sites including Wikipedia.org and all related domains be excluded from scanning by the Phorm / BT Webwise system, as we consider the scanning and profiling of our visitors' behavior by a third party to be an infringement on their privacy.

Here is a list of our domains which should be excluded (please exclude any and all subdomains as well):

wikipedia.org wikipedia.com wikipedia.co.uk wikipedia.cz wikipedia.fr wikipedia.info wikipedia.lt wikipedia.net wikipedia.nl wikipedia.org.br mediawiki.com mediawiki.org quickipedia.net quickipedia.org toolserver.org vikipedio.com vikipedio.org wikibook.com wikibooks.com wikibooks.cz wikibooks.org wikicitaty.cz wikidata.org wikidisclosure.com wikidisclosure.org wikidruhy.cz wikifamily.com wikifamily.org wikigis.com wikigis.org wikijunior.com wikijunior.net wikijunior.org wikiknihy.cz wikimania2006.org wikimania2007.org wikimaps.com wikimaps.net wikimediacommons.co.uk wikimediacommons.de wikimediacommons.eu wikimediacommons.info wikimediacommons.mobl wikimediacommons.net wikimediacommons.org wikimedia.cz wikimediafoundation.com wikimediafoundation.net wikimediafoundation.org wikimedia.hu wikimedia.li wikimedia.lt wikimedia.org wikimedia.pl wikimedia.se wikimedia.us wikimemory.org wikimorial.com wikimorial.org wikinews.org wikipaedia.net wikipedie.cz wikiquote.com wikiquote.cz wikiquote.net wikiquote.org wikislovnik.cz wikisource.com wikisource.cz wikisource.org wikispecies.com wikispecies.cz wikispecies.net wikispecies.org wikiversity.com wikiversity.cz wikiversity.org wikiverzita.cz wikizdroje.cz wikizpravy.cz wiktionary.com wiktionary.cz wiktionary.org

Thank you for your time.

-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO, Wikimedia Foundation San Francisco +1 (415) 839-6885