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

[Daniel R. Tobias]

Along the lines of what's been discussed regarding this recent use of 
CheckUser results...

Let's say that you're part of a big city's police vice squad.  In the 
course of some investigation of an unrelated issue, you happen to 
stumble on the customer list of a house of prostitution.  There are 
no current plans to prosecute that place or its customers, and no 
active search or arrest warrants regarding it, but you get a glance 
at the list by chance while investigating something else entirely, 
and you happen to see that a prominent politician who's just starting 
an election campaign is on that list.  Would you keep this 
information to yourself, or leak it to the press in an attempt to 
torpedo the guy's election?  Just wondering...


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