[Foundation-l] Note regarding status of privacy policy

Sun Aug 10 05:06:45 UTC 2008

hmmm.... can't quite agree with you, Jussi.

I share some of Slim's concerns on this one, though I write more as a
reprobate whose multiple accounts were detected late last year - also the
comparison with the animal rights movement's attempts to decentralise made
sense to me - it seemed like an apt analogy.

Does it really matter if people are checkusered regularly, with a liberally
low bar, and the information garnered from such checks is shared between
friends and colleagues equally liberally?

Maybe, maybe not - but I think that's kinda the status quo, and I think
people deserve the right to question it without being poo pooed - especially
when it's not really reflected by what's written on the tin at the policy
pages.

On the other hand - I see this thread's purpose was intended to be a review
of the new draft of the privacy policy. I think it's an improvement - I
think the key issues relate to the ways it's implemented - I would like to
assume for example that some rigour is applied to the assessment of external
legal claims before IP data is handed over.

best,

Peter
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