[Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

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Risker wrote:
> On 3 August 2010 15:48, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists at gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
> 
> Precisely my thought. I cannot speak for other projects, but the account
> creation page on English Wikipedia includes some privacy warnings and links
> directly to the WMF privacy policy, as does every single page on the
> project.  By creating an account, one implicitly accepts the terms of the
> privacy policy, including the potential for aggregation of edits.
> 


People can edit for years without creating an account, and they may well 
have a static IP address. Besides simply writing down that data is 
aggregated does not make it right. If its violation of personal data 
right for Germans why should it be any less of a violation for 
Spaniards, French, Americans, British, or the Chinese? Don't the German 
pages also have links to privacy statements?