An'n 03.08.2010 18:58, hett Marcus Buck schreven:
An'n 03.08.2010 09:13, hett emijrp schreven:
User contributions are also aggregated and
publicly available. User
contributions are aggregated according to their registration and login
status. Data on user contributions, such as the times at which users edited
and the number of edits they have made, are publicly available via user
contributions lists, and in aggregated forms published by other users.
Perhaps you
could compare it to this situation:
It's not illegal to look at a house from a public place. It's not
illegal to use binoculars in a public place. It's not illegal to take
photos in a public place. It's not illegal to follow a person. It's not
illegal to look into someone's trash can. It's not illegal to enter
someone's childrens' school. But if you do this all day long to a single
person, you are a stalker and legal action may be taken against you.
Just because collecting public data is legal doesn't mean that
aggregating it is legal. And German law is less lax with privacy than
other laws.
Just to be clear, with this comparison I am referring to the first
aggregation tool that created a analysis of edits over daytime and other
statistics. That was the reason for the policy in the first place. I
don't think that emijrp's tool violates German privacy law, but it
violates the policy.
Marcus Buck
User:Slomox