Hello. I hope this is the right place to raise this. I am an editor of a couple of small OD categories, and I am also a UK campaigner against the use of Deep Packet Inspection by Websites for behaviourally targetted advertising. (Phorm in UK, NebuAd in the USA).
The campaign has been approaching well known large websites about opting their websites out of profiling by Phorm's DPI model. There is an open letter from the "Open Rights Group" to large websites, at this url here
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A number of sites have responded, Amazon have chosen to optout, as has a major charity, Youthnet, each for their own reasons.
I don't want to clog up this forum with a debate on Phorm and DPI, in case that contravenes the guidelines - merely to know who I should approach with a request for DMOZ/OD to opt out of Phorm, along the lines of those discussed in the Open Letter, and an offer to provide any further information that DMOZ/OD may require - which I can provide.
If the issue is properly one that needs debating collectively on a particular forum, and it is one to which I as an ordinary editor have access, then I will be happy to directed here. I don't want to do the wrong thing so am posting this here in the General Discussion forum as my best guess at where to start.
Many thanks.
The campaign has been approaching well known large websites about opting their websites out of profiling by Phorm's DPI model. There is an open letter from the "Open Rights Group" to large websites, at this url here
<URL Removed>
A number of sites have responded, Amazon have chosen to optout, as has a major charity, Youthnet, each for their own reasons.
I don't want to clog up this forum with a debate on Phorm and DPI, in case that contravenes the guidelines - merely to know who I should approach with a request for DMOZ/OD to opt out of Phorm, along the lines of those discussed in the Open Letter, and an offer to provide any further information that DMOZ/OD may require - which I can provide.
If the issue is properly one that needs debating collectively on a particular forum, and it is one to which I as an ordinary editor have access, then I will be happy to directed here. I don't want to do the wrong thing so am posting this here in the General Discussion forum as my best guess at where to start.
Many thanks.
