On 1 July 2012 21:46, James Forrester <james(a)jdforrester.org> wrote:
On 1 July 2012 13:00, Tom Morris
<tom(a)tommorris.org> wrote:
None of which will matter if the law is so
broadly drawn that
Wikimedia UK or even an individual Wikimedian could be held to be an
operator of a telecommunications system.
It's entirely foreseeable that UK police would consider anyone with
'higher' rights (probably +sysop, definitely +bureaucrat, and
without-doubt +oversight, +checkuser, and +steward) as having
sufficient level of control and access to privileged data that normal
members of the public wouldn't that they count as 'operators'.
How about we avoid spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt?
The courts have always been able to subpoena people to provide
evidence. This act is about requiring people to store information so
that it is available should someone want to subpoena it. Do you think
the Secretary of State is going to order a British checkuser to
download the whole checkuser log everyday and store it just in case
the authorities later think there might be something in there relevant
to an investigation?