Hi all,

I have started a thread on Wikimedia-l mailing lst[1a][1b] about a proposal for improvement[2] of the current geolocation system used by Geonotice[3].

In the following e-mail we had some question about how the geolocalization from browser works. In particular, with the geolocalization via browser one can obtain the information of who received a geotargeted message or not? Is possible or not store the data about geolocalization?

Summing up, we are wondering if this system respects the privacy of users. Can you help us answer those concerns?

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.com Date: 2012/7/25 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Geolocalization improvement proposal To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

2012/7/24 Birgitte_sb@yahoo.com:

On Jul 24, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.com wrote:

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2012/7/24 Birgitte_sb@yahoo.com:

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The main question is whether the benefit from being able to connect people with local events is worth the risk of collecting more personalized of their data than we are accustomed to handling.

I could be wrong but I don't think we would "handle more data" than what we are doing now. We are not going to use that data and as far as I know that data "dies" in the moment the system has output the message.

Maybe this is the area that needs more study. And I am probably the wrong person to try and even formulate technical questions, but is there a way to make use of this data without storing it? Without even knowing who recieved what personalized messages, unless, of course,they choose to respond?

Thanks in advance,

Cristian

[1a] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-July/121236.html [1b] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-July/121281.html [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geonotice [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice