[WikiEN-l] Jayjg: Abusing CheckUser for political ends?

[geni]

On 6/16/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> The type of data involved is triggering a lot of people's "This smells
> like personal data" senses today, though.
>
> If they'd been using something other than a Tor node, and you revealed
> (for example) that the user in question logged in from Earthlink all
> the time, that would probably be clearly over the line, even though
> it's still relatively harmless in the greater scheme of things.

Actually policy specifically allows that.

If you are coming from say a uni IP however it would be more of an issue.
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geni