Brett Hillebrand wrote: > I have reason to believe that one of Betacommand's tools is currently > violating the Toolserver's privacy policy by profiling individual users > editing times and edited articles for comparative reasons as seen at: > > http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/UserCompare/ > > This information would not normally be aggregated in such a way that it is > easily obtainable and would require some effort and maths to do so. > > "Tools that allow profiling of individual user's activity (beyond what can > easily be achieved directly on the public wiki sites) must only be applied > with the respective user's consent (opt-in)." > > Whilst such information can be used against abusive editing, it promotes a > gross violation of privacy. > > Cheers, > > Brett Hillebrand > User:Promethean @ en_wiki > ACC Developer
Have you talked about your concerns to BetaCommand? PS: You should have created a new mail for the new topic. Otherwise it gets threaded incorrectly. It is not an uncommon sin, but those people at least don't use to create a new topic by top-posting the new one. _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
