[Foundation-l] Fwd: Should WMF opt out of Phorm?

Ryan Kaldari kaldari at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 21:43:16 UTC 2009


Yes, but how many of them let you opt out? If we could opt out of the
Great Firewall of China, I imagine we would :)

Ryan Kaldari

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:58 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/4/1 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>> http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/03/22/open-letter-call-for-major-websites-to-opt-out-of-phorm/
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>> Should we say "er, no, not our data either" or ignore them?
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>> (This has been discussed on internal lists as well, with all
>> commenting saying "HELL YES." The question then is whether, by some
>> obscure legal twist, this would leave WMF somehow exposed. And whether
>> it's worth it anyway.)
>>
>>
>> - d.
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> Wikipedia is not a campaigning organisation. We already supply
> information to people who's net access is monitored by far more
> worrying groups than phorm. So the privacy issues would not on their
> own be a justification.
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