Domas Mituzas wrote:
The issue is
when someone aggregates the data and associates with
an individual, and then makes publishes it. Or uses that data to
make public statements about a user.
we don't associate data with individual, we associate data with
pseudonym.
And? People use the same pseudonym on more than one site just as they
use the same password on more than one site. Besides some people even
enter their real name.
otoh, whatever people talk here about aggregation
seems to be
uneducated blabber by people who don't know Special:Contributions
exists (that also groups/aggregates data by user).
That there are multiple publications of processed user data does not
excuse the aggregation is simply makes it all the worse.