Risker wrote:
On 3 August 2010 15:48, Domas Mituzas
<midom.lists(a)gmail.com> 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.
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).
Precisely my thought. I cannot speak for other projects, but the account
creation page on English Wikipedia includes some privacy warnings and
links
directly to the WMF privacy policy, as does every
single page on the
project. By creating an account, one implicitly accepts the terms of the
privacy policy, including the potential for aggregation of edits.
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?
Perhaps the point here is that it is not illegal in the place where the
servers are housed, or where the WMF exists.
I do find it kind of curious to see such a hostile response to the
long-time, well-known privacy policy for a group of projects devoted to
education, research and openness of information, particularly one
where each editor is personally and directly responsible for each edit s/he
makes. Publishing one's words on WMF projects is a *public* act, something
that is made clear with every time someone opens an "edit" tab. (If it
isn't on the projects you work on, then it ought to be.)
Risker