I must also say that I am deeply uncomfortable with the username/password.  No 
tool labs tool or project has any business collecting usernames and passwords 
unless it's a local tool login completely separate login from WMF wikis.  If I 
am interpreting this incorrectly, I apologize.

That also goes without saying the collecting Access tokens of OAuth users is 
completely unacceptable too.

Cyberpower678
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> On Mar 8, 2016, at 04:57, Merlijn van Deen (valhallasw) 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Pine,
> 
>> On 8 March 2016 at 09:11, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Does "username/password combination for accounts created in Labs services" 
>> refer to service-specific Labs passwords rather than Wikimedia login 
>> credentials?
> Yes. It refers to e.g. the username/password combination you use on 
> https://phab-01.wmflabs.org/ or http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org. 
> Wikimetrics uses OAuth, so it will not get to know your credentials.
>  
>> I'm deeply uncomfortable with the idea that someone who logs into a Labs 
>> account could have their IP made public, and it also seems to me that any 
>> Labs tool owners who capture the IPs of tool users should be required to 
>> pass a similar level of scrutiny as is applied to Checkusers. Is this 
>> something that I should bring up with James Alexander and/or Michelle 
>> Paulson?
> 
> > someone who logs into a Labs account could have their IP made public
> Wikitech itself falls within the WMF Privacy Policy, so creating a Labs 
> account (and logging in to Wikitech) will not share your IP with any 
> projects. 
> 
> Using web tools hosted on Labs could, however, and realistically there not 
> much we can do about it. For example, in the case of Tool Labs, we do not 
> pass the IP address of the user to the tool, but a malicious tool could load 
> an external resource and track users using that external resource. This means 
> we would need to require checkuser-level scrutiny for every labs user, which 
> would just mean people will host their tools off labs. The requirement to 
> show a warning when private information is logged (cf. 
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Labs_Terms_of_use#What_information_should_I_provide_to_users.3F
>  ) is a compromise.
> 
> In practice, Labs projects should be considered the same as any external 
> resource: they might store private information. We just require labs project 
> to be clear about this in advance.
> 
> Merlijn
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