Chris Jenkinson wrote:
We had a rather large discussion today on privacy and
its application on
Wikipedia (specifically anonymous editing and the checkuser tool which
is the subject of much debate at the moment).
That's two distinct issues:
* If you contribute to the wiki without creating an account, your edits
are publicly identified with your network location instead of a name.
* Private internal logs associate for a limited time all edits with the
network location they were made from, and a small number of trusted
people have access to this information for the purpose of investigating
misuse of the service.
I am curious to whether the Wikimedia Foundation's
privacy policy is
compatible with EU legislation on privacy (which is tightly regulated),
and whether it is obliged to be, as the Foundation hosts servers in the
European Union (which are presumably subject to EU law).
I've been asking this for years... Check South Korea's laws as well, as
we have servers there too.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)