[WikiEN-l] Checkuser fiasco

[Chris Jenkinson]

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> Look, I'm happy with the board appointing trusted people to use
> checkuser.  I don't  mind if this is delegated to arbcom.
> 
> But I'm not happy at all about having a RFA-style beauty contest for
> people to use checkuser.  Nope.   This isn't how we do things
> associated with privacy.

Never mind that it's not how we do it, it's also probably illegal to do 
it under European Union law.

Chris