On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:20:29 +0200 Silke Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lots of stuff in this world is legal but I would never do it because I can > decide to do better. Sure, but this is not about what you would do, but what any person could do. A large pile of personal data generates a large desire to use it. That's why people argue against data /retention/ in the first place, and not only against the use of data: once data is collected, and in this case made publically available, it is eventually going to be used. I don't think the DUI tool author is to blame for this. It is a little surprising to me that people make such a fuss about this tool. Don't they know that this data is collected in the database? Even if we would force the tool author to implement opt-in for this tool, the data would still be there. 'Malicious' people who don't respect others' privacy (and those are the people we worry about) could still use it. It is as easy as clicking the "fork me on Github" button, commenting out the opt-in parts, and "git clone"ing the code on Labs (or on the Toolserver, for that matter). This "opt in" would be a placebo, or worse, a delusion of privacy. I think it is important that people know and understand what data is collected about them in the first place. The fuss about this tool shows that many don't. The discussion, I think, should be about what data should be collected and made available, and how individual users can control their data, not about some opt-in in one particular tool. -- Johannes Kroll Softwareentwickler Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
