On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 7:25 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Are you able to specify which policy or statement entitles you to the information you request? I can find no basis for it in the privacy policy, the Meta checkuser policy or the checkuser page on Commons. Can you also outline for your audience what harm you believe you have suffered?
Regarding policy, Russavia is claiming that the CU results were given to someone who wasnt a CU on Commons. In my experience sometimes that happens in cross-wiki investigations, but it should not be given to someone who isnt a CU anywhere, and it would be a very clear violation of CU policy for it to have been given to someone who wasnt WMF identified. It would be good if Russavia could clarify, and/or the OC could confirm, that the person who received the CU data was WMF identified at least.
this is the policy? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CheckUser_policy
i personally do not care about the russavia case in particular i must say. but i care about the (non-)care of persons having access to account data triggered by a bad policy. imo * checkuser usage must be requested traceable * checkuser usage must be done traceable * data retrieved via checkuser usage must not be given outside the persons authorized to have technical access right to this data anyway.
rupert