toddmallen
wrote:
People are readily identifiable by the
information given about them
anyway. How hard is it to find the Star Wars kid's name, even from our
article, where all the sources we use readily publish it, or a google
search on the article title brings it right up? If something is in
public already (which it by definition is, if reliable sources
available to the public have published it), it is no longer private.
You can say that's good, or bad, or simply inevitable, but it's still
the fact, and to think we can stuff genies back in bottles (even
provided that to do so would be desirable, an odd position for a
project specifically dedicated to making information available to
take) is monumental hubris. We're big, but we're not -that- big.
(Off-Topic):
And yet, see [[illegal prime]], and [[AACS encryption key controversy]].
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
The idea is that we do the right thing regardless of what anyone else does.
Fred
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