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Wikipedia Opts Out Of Phorm

Posted by timothy on from the phorm-of-their-objection dept.

ais523 writes "Wikipedia (and other websites run by Wikimedia) have requested to opt-out from Phorm; according to the email they sent, they 'consider the scanning and profiling of our visitors' behavior by a third party to be an infringement on their privacy.'" Another reader points to this post on techblog.wikimedia.org which includes a confirmation from Phorm that those sites will be excluded.

2 of 98 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Frist Ph0rm by David+Gerard · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the opposite of Artificial Intelligence: if you network enough marketers you get Sincere Stupidity.

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    http://rocknerd.co.uk
  2. WTF is Phorm? by EvanED · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you, like me, that read TFA and the article linked from TFA and still don't know what Phorm is other than it's something that some UK ISPs are implementing and there appear to be privacy concerns, Wikipedia.

    In short, it's system for doing targeted advertising by deep-packet inspection.