He has not, and the data collected via user-compare is generated solely via
data collected from the API and almost exclusively used for  SPI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations where
gathering and analyzing this data is standard practice. Had I been using
non-public data (anything generated from the sql databases that normal users
do not have access to) I would agree that there may be privacy issues,
however every piece of data that is used for that tool comes from the
en.wikipedia.org API.


Betacommand
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