[Wikimedia-l] PRISM

[Fred Bauder]

Forwarded to legal at wikimedia.org

Fred

> I think the key here is not to keep more information about users than
> necessary.
>
> Of course, there is the question of if the NSA asks for our checkuser
> data.
>
> I am relatively confident of WMF's honesty here. They have been pretty
> concerned about user privacy in general (I am sure that there is some WMF
> privacy mishap that happened at some point, but I am judging by my
> overall
> sense of the organization, make of it what you will.
>
> I think it would be a good idea for the WMF legal department to make a
> statement (which means I need to remember what mailing list legal is,
> it's
> not a burden but I am a lazy, lazy man)

We have occasionally made mistakes, but all checkuser requests are
logged; fishing expeditions are not allowed.

Fred