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

Andrew Garrett <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Andrew Garrett <[email protected]> 2010-09-24 04:10:44 
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User preferences are not intended to be public. The most obvious problem is the
watchlist token.

(In reply to comment #2)
> (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.

This wouldn't be revealed.

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