[Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

[wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk]

masti wrote:
> On 08/03/2010 10:38 PM, wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
>> Risker wrote:
>>> On 3 August 2010 15:48, Domas Mituzas<midom.lists at gmail.com>  wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> 
> because other countries laws do not mark IP as personal data? Same as 
> cars licence plates. Some people drive car with same licence plates for 
> years. And so what?
> 


For anyone interested this is the 2009 adopted report on privacy of user 
data on social network sites which would cover wikis Note section 2 for 
definition:

http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/docs/wpdocs/2009/wp163_en.pdf

See section 3.1.1 for circumstances where users assume the full 
responsibility of Data Controllers under the EU Data Protection 
Directive. Section 3.2 deals with default settings. Section 3.4 
sensitive data. Processing data 3.5 and much of teh rest of section 3. 
Section 4 deals with responsibility WRT minors.