[Foundation-l] privacy policy update

[Robert Rohde]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org> wrote:

>  Lodewijk writes:
>
> > That would still imply to the community that someone is falling under
> > this policy, and that the user is therefore "sought", something I'd
> > rather prefer to remain private information instead of public
> > knowledge :)
>
> I made exactly the same point when we were discussing revisions of our
> privacy policy with EFF.  The EFF lawyers suggested that, in instances
> where we don't have an active (working) e-mail for a User, we attempt
> notifying the User on the Talk page.  I suggested that many and
> perhaps most users would prefer that we not do this in public for all
> to see.



Well if you want to be sneaky, you could also use a dummy account.  Rather
than getting a message from User:MikeGodwin, they could get a request to
activate their email from User:SpunkyAngel525.  ;-)

-Robert Rohde