Subject: [NetBehaviour] Open Letter - Call for major websites to opt out ofPhorm.
Open Letter - Call for major websites to opt out of Phorm. Open letter, sent to Chief Privacy Officers or equivalent at: (i) Microsoft (ii) Google / Youtube (iii) Facebook (iv) AOL / Bebo (v) Yahoo (vi) Amazon (vii) Ebay Dear Sir / Madam, We are writing this open letter to you to ask you if you will act to protect your users’ privacy. We are asking you to exercise your ability to opt out of the Phorm system, that is planned to be rolled out in the near future under the “Webwise” brand by BT, Virgin and TalkTalk, the three largest UK ISPs. You may already be aware of the very significant concerns being expressed by many of your UK Internet customers about the interception and processing of their data whenever it is viewed by customers whose ISPs deploy the Phorm/Webwise system. This was recently highlighted in a widely reported meeting held in Parliament, hosted by Baroness Miller, at which Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, made a firm stand against technologies which ’snoop’ on the Internet, because of the highly sensitive nature of those communications. Further demonstrations of the worries about Phorm include over 21,000 members of the public signing a petition against Phorm’s deployment... The Open Rights Group is a grassroots technology organisation which exists to protect civil liberties wherever they are threatened by the poor implementation and regulation of digital technology. We call these rights our “digital rights”. In 2005, a community of 1,000 digital rights enthusiasts came together to create the Open Rights Group. Since then, ORG has spoken out on copyright term extension, DRM and the introduction of electronic voting in the UK. We have informed the debate on data protection, freedom of information, data retention and the surveillance state. more... http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ netznetz.net mailing list [email protected] http://listen.esel.at/mailman/listinfo/liste
