Delirium wrote:
Because the situation is completely dissimilar:
1) IP addresses are not very important
Personal information of any form is still personal information. I know
the Foundation is a U.S. organisation and is not subject to EU laws, but
various courts in the EU have found that IP addresses are personal
information.
2) Arbitrators are not employees of the Wikimedia
Foundation
3) It is not in Wikipedia's best interests to introduce ridiculous legal
hurdles that make it even harder to recruit people for a mostly
thankless volunteer job that we already have trouble filling reliably
I think this is largely irrelevant. If we aren't going to take the
trouble to be careful when dealing with personal information, then no
one should have access to it. Taking shortcuts on it is just foolish.
Chris