[Foundation-l] New draft of privacy policy

[Matthew Brown]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> Something else I think is worth pointing out: "the raw log data is not
> made public, and is normally discarded after about two weeks." has
> changed to "The raw log data is kept indefinitely, but is not made
> public."
>
> I get the impression that this isn't a change in policy, so much as a
> change in wording.  But then, it does seem to contradict the Data
> Retention Policy
> (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Data_Retention_Policy).

Not necessarily a contradiction, given the ambiguity of wording of
both statements.  'Indefinitely' just means "for an undefined period
of time", after all.  It just means that the privacy policy no longer
states any retention period.

-Matt