Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my Facebook data alone

Subject: Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my Facebook data alone

We're going to formally approach Facebook and other websites to block
Phorm via the group "Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my
Facebook data alone"

To do this we need to get membership numbers of the group to 1,000+.

We need to show that companies like Facebook must give the maximum
practical protection to our personal data.

So please join the group if you have not already - visit the group page
and push the 'share' link - post the group's link to your news feed and
profile and ask your friends to join!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56045061126

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"Eddie R" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Subject: Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my Facebook data alone
>
> We're going to formally approach Facebook and other websites to block
> Phorm via the group "Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my
> Facebook data alone"
>
> To do this we need to get membership numbers of the group to 1,000+.
>
> We need to show that companies like Facebook must give the maximum
> practical protection to our personal data.
>
> So please join the group if you have not already - visit the group page
> and push the 'share' link - post the group's link to your news feed and
> profile and ask your friends to join!
>
> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56045061126
>

I think you'll find that no-one gives a flying toss.....

Steve wrote:
> "Eddie R" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Subject: Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my Facebook data alone
>>
>> We're going to formally approach Facebook and other websites to block
>> Phorm via the group "Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my
>> Facebook data alone"
>>
>> To do this we need to get membership numbers of the group to 1,000+.
>>
>> We need to show that companies like Facebook must give the maximum
>> practical protection to our personal data.
>>
>> So please join the group if you have not already - visit the group page
>> and push the 'share' link - post the group's link to your news feed and
>> profile and ask your friends to join!
>>
>> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56045061126
>>
>
> I think you'll find that no-one gives a flying toss.....

Actually there are quiet a few people who care.

"Rupert Moss-Eccardt" <r.moss-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2B5xl.1801$(E-Mail Removed)2...
> Steve wrote:
>> "Eddie R" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Subject: Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my Facebook data
>>> alone
>>>
>>> We're going to formally approach Facebook and other websites to
>>> block
>>> Phorm via the group "Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my
>>> Facebook data alone"
>>>
>>> To do this we need to get membership numbers of the group to 1,000+.
>>>
>>> We need to show that companies like Facebook must give the maximum
>>> practical protection to our personal data.
>>>
>>> So please join the group if you have not already - visit the group
>>> page
>>> and push the 'share' link - post the group's link to your news feed
>>> and
>>> profile and ask your friends to join!
>>>
>>> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56045061126
>>>
>>
>> I think you'll find that no-one gives a flying toss.....
>
> Actually there are quiet a few people who care.

Probably can't spell any better than you can either......8-)) (can you
say 'lusers'??)
>

Eddie R wrote:
> Subject: Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my Facebook data alone
>
> We're going to formally approach Facebook and other websites to block
> Phorm via the group "Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my
> Facebook data alone"

I thought Facebook's business model had a lot of similarities with
Phorm's. They are both about targetting advertising based on gleaning
information about your interests. As I understand it, in the facebook
case, the premise is that your friends have similar interests to you, so
by telling facebook about your purchases, you are telling them what your
friends might want to purchase.

> Eddie R wrote:
>> Subject: Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my Facebook data alone
>>
>> We're going to formally approach Facebook and other websites to block
>> Phorm via the group "Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my
>> Facebook data alone"
>
> I thought Facebook's business model had a lot of similarities with
> Phorm's. They are both about targetting advertising based on gleaning
> information about your interests. As I understand it, in the facebook
> case, the premise is that your friends have similar interests to you, so
> by telling facebook about your purchases, you are telling them what your
> friends might want to purchase.

Yup. Facebook and privacy are oxymora surely?
--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:51:17 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:

> From: "Eddie R" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>
>| Subject: Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my Facebook data alone
>
> Eph Off !

Hey Lipman, what did you do to get PCButts down your throat?
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On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:03:59 -0000, David Woolley
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Eddie R wrote:
>> Subject: Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my Facebook data
>> alone
>> We're going to formally approach Facebook and other websites to block
>> Phorm via the group "Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my
>> Facebook data alone"
>
> I thought Facebook's business model had a lot of similarities with
> Phorm's. They are both about targetting advertising based on gleaning
> information about your interests. As I understand it, in the facebook
> case, the premise is that your friends have similar interests to you, so
> by telling facebook about your purchases, you are telling them what your
> friends might want to purchase.

In that case, surely it would be silly of Facebook to not prevent third
parties like phorm from cashing in on all the valuable data they've
collected instead of them!

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:56:47 -0400, Ari® <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:51:17 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:
>
>> From: "Eddie R" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>>
>>| Subject: Facebook: tell Phorm to Eph Off and leave my Facebook data alone
>>
>> Eph Off !
>
>Hey Lipman, what did you do to get PCButts down your throat?

Unzipped him?