On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Reading the Privacy policy I dont see this would
violate the policy as it
specifically doesnt record private data(ip, username), in my reading of
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#Purpose_of_the_collection_of_…
the policy specifically says "The Foundation limits the collection of
personally identifiable user data to purposes which serve the well-being of
its projects...." then includes some examples like public accountability of
the projects, and site statistics(raw data is not made public). This the
tool appears to be within those bounds of the privacy policy.
Even if they would fall under the privacy policy, according to it the
collection of private data can be done "including but not limited to
the following" purposes:
<snip>
"To provide site statistics. The Foundation statistically samples raw
log data from users' visits. These logs are used to produce the site
statistics pages; the raw log data is not made public."
So in my opinion even if we _would_ save private information with the
clicks, that still would not violate the privacy policy as long as the
data is sufficiently anonymized before it is seen by human eyes.
--
André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com