On 3 August 2010 16:38, <wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Risker wrote: > > On 3 August 2010 15:48, Domas Mituzas <midom.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>> The issue is when someone aggregates the data and associates with an > >>> individual, and then makes publishes it. Or uses that data to make > >>> public statements about a user. > >> > >> we don't associate data with individual, we associate data with > pseudonym. > >> > >> otoh, whatever people talk here about aggregation seems to be uneducated > >> blabber by people who don't know Special:Contributions exists (that also > >> groups/aggregates data by user). > >> > >> > > > > Precisely my thought. I cannot speak for other projects, but the account > > creation page on English Wikipedia includes some privacy warnings and > links > > directly to the WMF privacy policy, as does every single page on the > > project. By creating an account, one implicitly accepts the terms of the > > privacy policy, including the potential for aggregation of edits. > > > > > People can edit for years without creating an account, and they may well > have a static IP address. Besides simply writing down that data is > aggregated does not make it right. If its violation of personal data > right for Germans why should it be any less of a violation for > Spaniards, French, Americans, British, or the Chinese? Don't the German > pages also have links to privacy statements? > > >
Perhaps the point here is that it is not illegal in the place where the servers are housed, or where the WMF exists. I do find it kind of curious to see such a hostile response to the long-time, well-known privacy policy for a group of projects devoted to education, research and openness of information, particularly one where each editor is personally and directly responsible for each edit s/he makes. Publishing one's words on WMF projects is a *public* act, something that is made clear with every time someone opens an "edit" tab. (If it isn't on the projects you work on, then it ought to be.) Risker _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
