2014-05-20 18:14 GMT+02:00 Luis Villa <lvi...@wikimedia.org>: > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote: >> (2) >> > should not be judged poorly for not having had the right opportunity to >> defend users in court the way the report defines it. >> > > On the second point: we regularly defend user privacy and we regularly > defend users in court. Because of this, we have never taken a privacy issue > to court - so far, we have always been able to talk them out of it or > convince them it is not worth the trouble before it gets that far. We are > successful at this because (1) we have a very good record of winning court > cases, so they do not have a good chance of winning and (2) we collect so > little user information, and we delete it quickly, so we are usually able > to convince them that they won't get anything useful from us even if they > did win.
So this case: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/14/wikimedia-foundation-supports-wikipedia-user-subject-to-defamation-lawsuit-in-greece/ and more in general of this program: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Legal_Fees_Assistance_Program are not rated because they are not strictly privacy-related? C _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
