On Apr 24, 2018, at 5:11 AM, Dave O'Reilly <[email protected]> wrote: > Part of the problem that I have noticed is that the discussions of privacy > vs. law enforcement access to data are very ideologically motivated - on both > sides - with neither side apparently willing to accept that the other side > has any validity to their position. Not the first time in the history of > humanity that we’ve had that problem. As with all of the most interesting > problems, there isn’t a right or wrong answer, when considering the conflict > between individual right to privacy and law enforcement access to data - the > solution is not one or the other, but much more likely to be somewhere in the > middle.
This statement does a huge disservice to the actual comments that have been submitted so far, which have been far more nuanced than you are suggesting. For example, the point was raised that the ability to track which wikipedia articles were read by whom is very different than seeing what article was posted by whom. In your example of a murder investigation, I'm sure it's possible that knowing what wiki article someone read could have some bearing on the investigation. But there's a pretty obvious tradeoff here: the wiki article info might by some remote chance be useful for that purpose, but having a list of who read what is definitely useful for repression, whether that is done by the police or by some other agency. So painting this as a matter of ideology, as if the actual conclusion we drew were somewhat academic, is simply incorrect. If you are not willing to consider this problem in any other terms, I think that bodes ill for this effort.
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