hmmm.... can't quite agree with you, Jussi.
I share some of Slim's concerns on this one, though I write more as a reprobate whose multiple accounts were detected late last year - also the comparison with the animal rights movement's attempts to decentralise made sense to me - it seemed like an apt analogy.
Does it really matter if people are checkusered regularly, with a liberally low bar, and the information garnered from such checks is shared between friends and colleagues equally liberally?
Maybe, maybe not - but I think that's kinda the status quo, and I think people deserve the right to question it without being poo pooed - especially when it's not really reflected by what's written on the tin at the policy pages.
On the other hand - I see this thread's purpose was intended to be a review of the new draft of the privacy policy. I think it's an improvement - I think the key issues relate to the ways it's implemented - I would like to assume for example that some rigour is applied to the assessment of external legal claims before IP data is handed over.
best,
Peter PM.