[WikiEN-l] Privacy rating for Wikipedia

[James Farrar]

On 11/06/07, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/11/07, jf_wikipedia <jf_wikipedia at mac.com> wrote:
> > Wikipedia, together with BBC.com, ebay, Last.fm and LiveJournal.com
> > was rated as "generally privacy aware" by Privacy International, the
> > LA Times reported today in its Business section. That rating was the
> > highest awarded by the watchdog organization.
> >
> > Goggle was  at the bottom, with a rating of "comprehensive consumer
> > surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy"
>
> http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/internet/interimrankings.pdf
>
> I asked them for further information. So far, I am unconvinced about
> their methodology.

I did chuckle at the irony of the description of Wikipedia policy as
"unverifiable"... :-)