Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I agree that the privacy policy is there for all
users, anonymous or
not. WE do not log what people read. We leave that to our respective
governments.if they care to. My question is what the added value is to
adding more cruft to each and every article people read? What is the
added value? I do not think that adding all kinds of everything to every
page is a good idea. I prefer a clean crisp look. I prefer that all
relevant information is readily available from apropriate pages like a
help page, a user portal..
The point is that many sites *do* track where specific IPs do on their sites.
We need to tell readers that we don't do that - that we respect their privacy.
We actually do track what specific IPs do on our site, and we use this
for a number of purposes that some people might or might not like. (For
example, checking for sock puppeting.)
Any change to the privacy policy would have to be worded very carefully
so as not to make promises that we can't deliver. I prefer instead that
our privacy policy warn people that we aren't really the sort of
organization that is set up very well to protect people's privacy. As a
matter of fact, we don't particularly care what people are doing on the
site (as long as they aren't causing trouble somehow), but it is hard
for us to make strong guarantees that we aren't tracking people or
looking at what they are doing.
--Jimbo