[Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

[Marcus Buck]

  An'n 03.08.2010 09:13, hett emijrp schreven:
> User contributions are also aggregated and publicly available. User
> contributions are aggregated according to their registration and login
> status. Data on user contributions, such as the times at which users edited
> and the number of edits they have made, are publicly available via user
> contributions lists, and in aggregated forms published by other users.
Perhaps you could compare it to this situation:
It's not illegal to look at a house from a public place. It's not 
illegal to use binoculars in a public place. It's not illegal to take 
photos in a public place. It's not illegal to follow a person. It's not 
illegal to look into someone's trash can. It's not illegal to enter 
someone's childrens' school. But if you do this all day long to a single 
person, you are a stalker and legal action may be taken against you. 
Just because collecting public data is legal doesn't mean that 
aggregating it is legal. And German law is less lax with privacy than 
other laws.

Marcus Buck
User:Slomox