[Foundation-l] privacy policy update

[Florence Devouard]

Hello,

During the last board meeting, the board approved the following resolution

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will amend its privacy policy 
to notify, when possible, those members of the community whose 
personally identifiable data has been sought through, or produced as a 
result of, civil or criminal legal process, except when such 
notification is forbidden by state or federal law in the United States 
of America.


This change of policy was suggested early march by Nsk92, following the 
Video Professor incident. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28policy%29/Archive_25#Releasing_IP_addresses_of_registered_users:_the_Video_Professor_incident
After I was informed of this request, I added it on the board agenda and 
asked Mike Godwin to come with an appropriate text.

As a matter of interest, I had asked Mike to review entirely, and to 
work on a full update of our privacy policy. We should expect a full 
draft for this summer. However, I felt that this little update could 
anticipate the brand new summer version.

Thanks

Florence