[Toolserver-l] user_properties privacy issues

[John]

gender is already public if set.

John

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten at mdammers.nl>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I just noticed
>
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#User_preferences
> so I wondered where the data comes from. I checked the commonswiki_p
> database and it looks like user_properties is visible now. I always
> considered the user_properties information privacy sensitive
> information. It contains the gender, language and timezone of every
> user. Information I'm sure a lot of people don't want to have exposed.
> Please remove this table from the view.
>
> Maarten
>
>
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