On 08/03/2010 10:38 PM, wiki-list(a)phizz.demon.co.uk
wrote:
Risker wrote:
> On 3 August 2010 15:48, Domas Mituzas<midom.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
People can edit for years without creating an
account, and they may well
have a static IP address. Besides simply writing down that data is
aggregated does not make it right. If its violation of personal data
right for Germans why should it be any less of a violation for
Spaniards, French, Americans, British, or the Chinese? Don't the German
pages also have links to privacy statements?
because other countries laws do not mark IP as personal data? Same as
cars licence plates. Some people drive car with same licence plates for
years. And so what?
For anyone interested this is the 2009 adopted report on privacy of user
data on social network sites which would cover wikis Note section 2 for
definition:
See section 3.1.1 for circumstances where users assume the full
responsibility of Data Controllers under the EU Data Protection
Directive. Section 3.2 deals with default settings. Section 3.4
sensitive data. Processing data 3.5 and much of teh rest of section 3.
Section 4 deals with responsibility WRT minors.