[Toolserver-l] Privacy Violation?

[Platonides]

Brett Hillebrand wrote:
> I have reason to believe that one of Betacommand's tools is currently
> violating the Toolserver's privacy policy by profiling individual users
> editing times and edited articles for comparative reasons as seen at:
> 
> http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/UserCompare/
> 
> This information would not normally be aggregated in such a way that it is
> easily obtainable and would require some effort and maths to do so.
> 
> "Tools that allow profiling of individual user's activity (beyond what can
> easily be achieved directly on the public wiki sites) must only be applied
> with the respective user's consent (opt-in)."
> 
> Whilst such information can be used against abusive editing, it promotes a
> gross violation of privacy.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brett Hillebrand
> User:Promethean @ en_wiki
> ACC Developer

Have you talked about your concerns to BetaCommand?


PS: You should have created a new mail for the new topic. Otherwise it
gets threaded incorrectly.
It is not an uncommon sin, but those people at least don't use to create
a new topic by top-posting the new one.