[Foundation-l] Privacy concerns

[David Gerard]

On 10 July 2011 21:28, Peter Gervai <grinapo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well I don't know about your EU but in ours we have a method called
> "collecting private data by agreement for a given purpose" and it is
> completely legal. If I say to you that you have to provide this and
> that private data if you want me to do this and that and I will
> collect your private data for that very purpose, and you agree, then I
> am legally allowed to collect and handle it. You have the right to
> disagree and leave the agreement and not to use the given service.


We're not saying it's illegal. We're saying it's grossly unfit for
Wikimedia and laughs at the privacy policy.

However, you say that pointing out that something ridiculously bad is
ridiculously bad is "impolite". So I guess that makes it all okay
then.


- d.