On 14/09/13 22:14, Jeremy Baron wrote:
Hi,
tl;dr: That tool needs to be disabled immediately. It may be possible
to "fix" it to give very clear (and accurate!) warnings about the
impending sharing of their data before the sharing takes place (...)
There are links created with the text "Ավելացնել կոորդինատ" (google
translate makes me think that means approximately "add [a]
coordinate(s)") and clicking that will load the google JS. There
appears to be no warning to the user that their data will be shared
with google when they click that link and I believe this is a clear
violation of the WMF privacy policy as currently implemented. see [0]
for links I found where you can try this yourself.
I strongly agree. It should be disabled ASAP.
At least, it's not automatic on page view.
> IMHO making sure the wording clear and accurate will take too long
> (i.e. more than 5 mins) and we should first disable the tool
> completely while/if that wording is developed.
What about «Do you want to load a Google map here? This will allow
Google to get a bunch of data from you, and will effectively surrend
your user account to their goodwill» ?
On the first mail I thought they had implemented it as a *user* script
(each one is free to unsecure their own privacy and account if they
really wish).
== Licensing issue ==
If we can use Google Maps to get object coordinates into the articles is
another tricky question (and hard to fix after done). I will wait for
Luis opinion, but we should be careful.
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