In a message dated 9/26/2008 4:29:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time, morven@gmail.com writes:

I believe it IS sometimes permissible. For instance, if someone is vandalizing, making threats, etc. it is permissible to discover personal information about them for the purposes of preventing the problem. For instance, that's what checkusers do in cases of serious vandalism etc. We may, for instance, discover personal information through those checks, make connections between multiple accounts, announce issues if we feel it necessary, get in touch with ISPs in severe cases, etc.

-------------------------------------- Not this case. This was a single admin, acting alone. And no evidence that this was a "severe case" anyway.

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