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[ NNSquad ] Re: Facebook announces *no data charges* mobile access thanks to "carrier deals"
It also reminds us how many people are looking at our traffic, to be able to discern whether we're looking at 0.facebook.com or other sites. I don't suppose I can get the "free" access from my Tor-enabled android browser, but at least I can shield my browsing patterns from nosy carriers. <https://www.torproject.org/docs/android.html.en> How soon before someone finds a way to proxy tunnel through 0.facebook.com? --Wendy On 01/26/2011 01:42 PM, Lauren Weinstein wrote: > > Facebook announces *no data charges* mobile access thanks to "carrier deals" > http://bit.ly/gHNOH4 (Google Buzz) > > - - - > > http://bit.ly/edH9yF (Facebook Blog) > > "Thanks to the help of mobile operators we collaborated with, people > can access 0.facebook.com without any data charges. Using > 0.facebook.com is completely free. People will only pay for data > charges when they view photos or when they leave 0.facebook.com to > browse other mobile sites. When they click to view a photo or browse > another mobile site a notification page will appear to confirm that > they will be charged if they want to leave 0.facebook.com" > > - - - > > The implications of this range from fascinating to bizarre to > worrisome. In particular, I would *very* much like to know "what's in > it" for this long list of (currently non-U.S.) mobile carriers. Are > they playing along with Facebook out of the goodness of their hearts? > Unlikely. So if you want to access Facebook, that's free. But if you > want to access Google, you have to pay data charges. Hmm ... > > --Lauren-- > Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren > Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org > Founder: > - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org > - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org > - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com > Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy > Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com > Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein > Google Buzz: http://bit.ly/lauren-buzz > Quora: http://www.quora.com/Lauren-Weinstein > Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com > > -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org +1 914-374-0613 Fellow, Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/ https://www.torproject.org/ http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/