[Foundation-l] Privacy concerns

Mon Jul 11 11:50:57 UTC 2011

I am not sure if that would solve any of the problems that some people have
with the current situation. Still the notarized statement (which includes
all personal data) would end up with an individual if I understand
correctly. It would only add quite a lot of costs...

2011/7/11 Peter Gervai <grinapo at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 02:28, Robin McCain <robin at slmr.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd say that if you've blocked someone who is a sockpuppet or other
> > abuser the burden of validating such a person should be on them, not the
> > wiki staff. At least a notary (or other public official) would have to
> > look at an identity document - verify its validity as well as see that
> > it indeed matches the person in question - then sign a document to that
> > effect. This completely removes the wiki staff from the need to access
> > the validity of a copy.
>
> I guess it is nice to offer the blocked people this alternative,
> privacy-enhanced method along the old one. I'm sure current poster
> would be pleased, and I guess the dutch wikigods could accept that
> solution, too.
>
> --
>  byte-byte,
>     grin
>
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