[WikiEN-l] Privacy policy, law and guessing identitites of anon users

[David Gerard]

Nyenyec N (nyenyec at gmail.com) [050702 12:26]:

> Is it against the privacy policy or the law to:
> 1a) publicly claim that an anon user is the same as a logged in User
> when they take part in policy violations such as 3RR
> 1b) publicly claim that they are the same person when they haven't
> violated any policies yet
> 2) publish a list of IP addresses assumed to belong to a user who have
> already violated policy (3RR, personal attacks)


On en:, we do any of these. If I do an IP check and see that a user is
using an IP as a sockpuppet, then too bad for them.

Using an IP for violating policy is taken to mean you've lost your right to
privacy on that matter. You don't get to hide behind it.


- d.