[Foundation-l] privacy policy update

[White Cat]

I am kind of concerned (not with the change btw). Basically if I wanted to
learn the IP of a user I dislike, all I need to do is file a criminal
charge? How does it work?
   - White Cat

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Florence Devouard <anthere at anthere.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
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