[Foundation-l] Release of squid log data

[Brownout]

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On 14/09/2007 13:41, Tim Starling wrote:
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> I'm not sure if this would be allowed on the privacy policy, which does 
> mention statistics, but doesn't say who is making them. Maybe the use of 
> web bugs by administrators is already against the privacy policy. In any 
> case, I think the question would benefit from community discussion, 
> which is why I am posting it here.
- From http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#Private_logging
There are 6 points, mostly about law enforcement and project protection
against abuse, followed by "Wikimedia policy does not permit public
distribution of such information under any circumstances, except as
described above", no hint about academic research or NDAs that would
allow third parties to access those personal informations, not without
*explicit* consent from the users.

We have strict rules about how CUs have to handle private data of
_editors_ and then we would allow three universities to access data of
_any_user_ that access WMF sites?
I consider myself mildly paranoid, so this is undoubtedly POV, but I
think this idea is crazy.

Some people use static IP addresses, even with personal information
attached to whois records, did you ever considered it?
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