[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia and the politics of encryption

[James Alexander]

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Peter Gervai <grinapo at gmail.com> wrote:

> illegally collect personal data about them and *monetize it *or use to
> pressure or
> threaten selected individuals, companies or agencies.


Monetize it?

I am in no way going to defend my government on most of this given that I
think they are doing much of it unconstitutionally and much of the rest
immorally (though I will say that we would/do fight our ass off against
inappropriate demands and that the demands that would be placed on us in
Europe are actually worse so I really wouldn't agree with this supposition
that the US is significantly worse then the rest of the world... though I'd
agree that we're less 'better' then we like to claim) but how do you think
they will *monetize* it?