Policy talk:Privacy policy
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Localisation of new privacy policy
It would be helpful in the translation of the new privacy policy to have a definition of the phrase 'personally identifiable information'. Can someone provide this? Lloffiwr 14:11, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
- He pointed me to w:Personally identifiable information. Cbrown1023 talk 21:00, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you, I understand this much better now, and have put the link to the article on the talk page of the translation request for others to follow. Lloffiwr 23:26, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
How do I report
How do I report someone adding something to my view ie. Chris Brown as if it's coming from me? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.95.40.84 (talk • contribs) 05:32, 25 February 2009 (UTC).
policy violation?
The policy says that info on page visits are not exposed publically, but there is a bot which is publishing page after page of user's search terms along with their username and I think for non-users IP address: here are many such pages: [1] also failed search terms are logged: [2] (there are dozens of archives of the above page stretching back several months, with page names of the form ../archive26). Given the controversy over search engines retaining user data and in some cases publishing it, these pages seem a gross violation of user privacy. Do wikipedia visitors know that the search terms they use have become a matter of public record? I doubt it. Weeksinput 03:36, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
- You're mistaken. The bot is posting its own search results. It searches new pages and posts a list of those it finds. The username you see next to each page is the page's creator. This is confirmed by looking at the history of the page. That bot is not publishing users' search results. -Kotra 17:14, 25 March 2009 (UTC)