Forwarded to legal at wikimedia.org Fred
> I think the key here is not to keep more information about users than > necessary. > > Of course, there is the question of if the NSA asks for our checkuser > data. > > I am relatively confident of WMF's honesty here. They have been pretty > concerned about user privacy in general (I am sure that there is some WMF > privacy mishap that happened at some point, but I am judging by my > overall > sense of the organization, make of it what you will. > > I think it would be a good idea for the WMF legal department to make a > statement (which means I need to remember what mailing list legal is, > it's > not a burden but I am a lazy, lazy man) We have occasionally made mistakes, but all checkuser requests are logged; fishing expeditions are not allowed. Fred _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
