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.
Speaking of the privacy policy... I think I would like to see the data retention to something along the lines of fifteen days or so.
Jon
I'll pgp sign this later if requested.