https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18429
Gurch <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] | |om --- Comment #5 from Gurch <[email protected]> 2009-04-12 20:40:42 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) > Residing on a particular range is not by itself personally identifiable > information, although it may be private information; and while the user-agent > header sent by a user is not public data, I would not really classify it as > "private", per-se, and certainly not personally identifiable. You're right, it wouldn't (at least in most cases) count as such. Though it could be used to determine, say, where a user is from. While I personally don't care who knows that, I know there are a lot of people out there who do -- imagine a "Contributors from XYZ" filter with IP ranges that geolocate to that place, in a private filter looking for (or claiming to look for) a particular abusive user from that area. Now any legitimate user editing from XYZ gets an entry in the abuse log linking their username to place XYZ, and that log entry is visible to everyone, not just admins. It's not exactly Checkuser but it's more disclosure than there currently is (I lack the patience and legal expertise to figure out exactly what the privacy policy's take is on this :) Not sure what user-agent header has to do with anything, that (usually) only identifies the user's browser and OS. Though I am aware checkusers also have access to that information, I don't know what they do with it nor why anyone would want to use it for an abuse filter. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
