[Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

Tue Aug 3 20:12:00 UTC 2010

On 3 August 2010 15:48, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > The issue is when someone aggregates the data and associates with an
> > individual, and then makes publishes it. Or uses that data to make
> > public statements about a user.
>
>
> we don't associate data with individual, we associate data with pseudonym.
>
> otoh, whatever people talk here about aggregation seems to be uneducated
> blabber by people who don't know Special:Contributions exists (that also
> groups/aggregates data by user).
>
>

Precisely my thought. I cannot speak for other projects, but the account
creation page on English Wikipedia includes some privacy warnings and links
directly to the WMF privacy policy, as does every single page on the
project.  By creating an account, one implicitly accepts the terms of the
privacy policy, including the potential for aggregation of edits.

Risker