On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Johannes Kroll <[email protected]>wrote:
> Just to prevent some possible misunderstandings... :-) > > I'm not arguing for less privacy. I'm saying that forcing this one tool > to use "opt-in" would not give you more privacy. It would only force > the "bad" people to abuse the data in a less obvious way, for example > by copying the tool to another account and commenting out any opt-in > related code. This is trivial to do. > > If you are concerned about the data you generate on Wikipedia, you > should argue that either the data should not be stored (which probably > isn't technically feasible since it is needed for other reasons), or > not made publically available via the DB replication and the API. I > think this is an important discussion because profiling Wikipedia edits > can really tell you a *lot* about a person. More control for individual > users over how their data is stored and made available via the API > and DB would be a very good thing. > > There's absolutely nothing we can do here. We can't stop providing dumps and the dumps are all you need to build a tool like this. Editing history is completely public and needs to be to fulfill our license. Telling people they can't run tools like this may stop the tools for a while, but if someone wants to be abusive, they'll download the dumps and host it outside of Labs. - Ryan
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