On 6/18/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Josh Gordon wrote:
If somebody requested a checkuser on you, policy would explicitly allow me to reveal: (a) your use of a large national or multinational ISP, such as AOL, NTL, BT, Telestra (b) the country you're dialing in from
Use of a Tor proxy falls into the same sort of category, and has been generally treated that way (as have all open proxies).
I confess that I haven't followed the CharlotteWebb thing closely. Did anybody request a CheckUser on them?
Maybe all of my years of being bound by various confidentiality agreements has made me more sensitive than most, but it seems to me that giving out even apparently harmless information learned about person Y when doing a CheckUser on person X would be inappropriate.
Thanks,
William
Yes, in general in privacy agreements giving out information about Y learned while doing a check on X is not allowed. That Wikipedia has a different sort of privacy agreement is a matter of concern for me, because their privacy policy appears to be written only towards specifically protecting the privacy of the person who was being checked.
KP