An'n 03.08.2010 18:58, hett Marcus Buck schreven: > An'n 03.08.2010 09:13, hett emijrp schreven: >> User contributions are also aggregated and publicly available. User >> contributions are aggregated according to their registration and login >> status. Data on user contributions, such as the times at which users edited >> and the number of edits they have made, are publicly available via user >> contributions lists, and in aggregated forms published by other users. > Perhaps you could compare it to this situation: > It's not illegal to look at a house from a public place. It's not > illegal to use binoculars in a public place. It's not illegal to take > photos in a public place. It's not illegal to follow a person. It's not > illegal to look into someone's trash can. It's not illegal to enter > someone's childrens' school. But if you do this all day long to a single > person, you are a stalker and legal action may be taken against you. > Just because collecting public data is legal doesn't mean that > aggregating it is legal. And German law is less lax with privacy than > other laws.
Just to be clear, with this comparison I am referring to the first aggregation tool that created a analysis of edits over daytime and other statistics. That was the reason for the policy in the first place. I don't think that emijrp's tool violates German privacy law, but it violates the policy. Marcus Buck User:Slomox _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l