Shane Simmons wrote: >> The issue is the aggregation and collation of the data and making it >> available to others. Why would you consider that some one's edit history >> is any less personal than what they borrow from the library? > > ... > >> Why so? Editing history reveals your interests, maybe your politics, >> perhaps your religious affiliations, your ethnicity. A whole range of >> personal data can be mined from 1000s of edits. It may reveal >> associations with other users, and networks of users. Those groupings >> may then be traced into social networks like facebook, or linkin. > > If you borrowed books from a library with the reasonable expectation of > privacy, and such data was made public, I can see the issue. > However, if you borrowed books from an open and public source, ( > bookcrossing.com comes to mind) which shows you, and everyone else, every > book you've logged into the site, you really can't reasonably expect > privacy.
Its not a question of expecting privacy its a question of requiring privacy. Did you see the proposed EU document and how it would impose liabilities on individuals that aggregate and disseminate personal data? http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/docs/wpdocs/2009/wp163_en.pdf At present adoption is delayed until next year as it appears that member states are looking to toughen up the rules and penalties: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/04/reding_data_protection/ and to coordinate legislation with the US: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/13/eu_data_protection_deal_us/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
