[Foundation-l] Privacy concerns

Sun Jul 10 21:25:26 UTC 2011

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 22:53, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 July 2011 21:28, Peter Gervai <grinapo at gmail.com> wrote:

> We're not saying it's illegal.

He just said that. I did not reply to your statements. :-)

> We're saying it's grossly unfit for
> Wikimedia and laughs at the privacy policy.

Possibly, and you seem quite cautious forming opinion in strong words.
Others, however, seemed to start by calling the firing squad.

The current privacy policy is a good one, which doesn't mean that the
dutch method originated in Satan's will. Identity verification and
desockpuppetisation :-) seems to be a logical pairing to me, even if I
find it a bit extreme, too. Seem to work though. And if the details of
the handling of private data is well outlined and confined it could be
a good thing to have.

> However, you say that pointing out that something ridiculously bad is
> ridiculously bad is "impolite". So I guess that makes it all okay
> then.

Not really what I said. I intended to say that calling something
"ridiculously bad" without examining all the backgrounds and the way
it's used and its effectiveness and its real life problems (if there
ever has any) is impolite. It's like calling someone "stupid" without
trying to understand his reasoning.

I do not find it "ridiculously bad", for example, but that is strictly
my opinion.

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