[Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

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Domas Mituzas wrote:
>> The issue is when someone aggregates the data and associates with
>> an individual, and then makes publishes it. Or uses that data to
>> make public statements about a user.
> 
> 
> we don't associate data with individual, we associate data with
> pseudonym.

And? People use the same pseudonym on more than one site just as they 
use the same password on more than one site. Besides some people even 
enter their real name.

> otoh, whatever people talk here about aggregation seems to be
> uneducated blabber by people who don't know Special:Contributions
> exists (that also groups/aggregates data by user).
> 

That there are multiple publications of processed user data does not 
excuse the aggregation is simply makes it all the worse.