James: Seems (to me, I might be wrong) that you are mixing different issues, technical aspects and concerns in order to create drama. On my end I try to give my very limited time and attention to threads that foster collaboration and this really doesn't seem one of those.
Thanks, Nuria On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 8:47 AM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> storing the geolocation of every reader request is not within > >> the letter or the spirit of the Foundation's privacy policy, > >> which explicitly requires consent for the use of geolocation > > > > No, this is not correct. The reasons why this statement is > > incorrect have already been discussed in the already mentioned thread. > > The only such discussion I see on the analytics list is: > > > The privacy policy talks about client side geo location to offer you > > geo-specific features on the client side, which is an entirely different > > topic of what we are taking about here. IP addresses are going to be > > sent via HTTP regardless with your request and the geo location we > > do (to be able to report for example pages per country, one of the > > reports most sought after by our community) has nothing to do with > > geolocated features. > > On the contrary, all geolocation services, processing, and logging > is performed on Foundation servers, not client equipment. Every > reader's request is currently being geolocated without regard to > whether consent has been asked or obtained. If readers' refuse > consent for their GPS information to be used (which is the only > consent we ask even though the Privacy Policy says we require > consent to use any geolocation) we store their IP addresses in > the clear with their associated geolocation anyway, and make > them available to several external researchers at Stanford, the > École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, and the Leibniz > Institute for the Social Sciences. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
