https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25281

MZMcBride <b...@mzmcbride.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from MZMcBride <b...@mzmcbride.com> 2010-09-24 03:59:52 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm not doubting that it could be, but perhaps someone could help me to
> understand how is this type of information being available a problem.

I don't know the extent to which user preferences are available, but I would
say that the most (and probably only) problematic user preference is user
e-mail address. In addition to privacy and expectation of privacy concerns,
something like this could theoretically be used for e-mail address harvesting
or revealing that multiple accounts belong to the same individual.

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