[Foundation-l] Release of squid log data

[Brock Weller]

No comment on your other points, but id hardly consider a university
conducting research under a nda 'public' disclosure at all, to the
point where i don't think this even breaks the privacy policy,
although whether or not to do it should be a community decision.

On 9/14/07, Brownout <brovvnout at gmail.com> wrote:
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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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-Brock