On 10/22/05, Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org wrote:
I would also like to propose that any person with access to server logs (which include IP addresses), including people with access to the checkuser tool, should sign a legal agreement of some sort with the Wikimedia Foundation concerning non-disclosure of this information.
I'd expressed a concern in the IRC discussion today related to this idea.
Such a policy might put us in a very awkward position of having to take action against a valued volunteer who has made a mistake and violated his NDA, or suffer greatly increased liability from the violated through the sustainable claim that advertisement of the use of NDA is misleading because there was no enforcement.