On 10/22/05, Chris Jenkinson <chris(a)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.