On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> Achim lives in Germany, so is very much subject to German law. He's
> equally subject to German law if he edits the English Wikipedia,
> though. There is no connection between a particular language Wikipedia
> and the law of a country that sp
It isn't just a French issue, the whole of the European Union has Data
Protection Law based on the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive
And the categories of "Sensitive" data are similar across the EU.
Ethnicity, religion, health and Political opinion being perhaps the most
relev
As French Wikimedians are unlikely to see this thread here on wikien-l (and
wikifr-l seems moribund), I've dropped a post about this to wikimedia-l.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-August/121744.html
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On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 19 August 2012 10:54, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> > This is quite wrong, and a dangerous fallacy to promote, Thomas. To give
> an
> > example, a few months back, German Wikipedian Achim Raschka got a phone
> > call from the German police over
On 19 August 2012 10:54, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> This is quite wrong, and a dangerous fallacy to promote, Thomas. To give an
> example, a few months back, German Wikipedian Achim Raschka got a phone
> call from the German police over his addition of a pornographic video to
> the German article on p
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> The French Wikipedia is written in the French language, but it isn't
> French. It is hosted by an American charity on servers in America (and
> a few in the Netherlands, I think). French law doesn't apply.
>
This is quite wrong, and a dange
On 19 August 2012 02:32, yutsi wrote:
> "Under the French penal code, stocking personal details including race,
> sexuality, political leanings or religious affiliation is punishable by
> five-year prison sentences and fines of up to euro300,000 ($411,000)."
>
> —
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2
"Under the French penal code, stocking personal details including race,
sexuality, political leanings or religious affiliation is punishable by
five-year prison sentences and fines of up to euro300,000 ($411,000)."
—
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/24/jew-or-not-jew-iphone-app_n_730.
