Seeing as there hasn't been much public discussion on this (at least on the English-language Wikipedia) I thought it would be a good idea to let you all know that Raul654, Fred Bauder, Kelly Martin, The Epopt and Jayjg have all been granted access to the checkuser tool[1] (the tool which allows for checking of sockpuppets by giving access to IP addresses, including those of signed-in Wikipedians).
I'm afraid I'm only recently following these policy discussions. Is there a publically available log showing which administrators have run checkuser checks on which users? The feature seems to be designed for times when there's a public perception that someone is a sockpuppet, so I'd imagine that that log wouldn't be a privacy violation on the people who get checked out.
I've made several "anonymous" posts on various sensitive pages and I don't like the idea that my IP records could be checked by an administrator with little oversight.
-- Creidieki