Policy talk:Privacy policy

We made a minor update to the Privacy Policy.

We invite additional comments for the next 30 days.

On May 21, 2018, we posted minor updates to our Privacy Policy. These updates use more consistent terminology, include minor updates to the text, and provide a clear explanation of our privacy practices.

As we promised in the Privacy Policy, we are providing these minor changes with three (3) calendar days prior notice. They will take affect on May 24, 2018.
If you have any additional feedback on the Privacy Policy, we invite you to comment over the next thirty (30) calendar days.

The Privacy Policy was established on the principles of explaining our practices in clear and concise language, collecting minimal personal information about users, using information to make our websites better for you, and retaining data only as long as we need it. We remain committed to these principles, and have not made substantial changes to your rights in the Privacy Policy.

If you are interested in more information, we have also updated the FAQ accompanying the Privacy Policy.

We are grateful for your comments and attention. Thank you!

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Allow people contributing pictures to conceal camera make and model for privacy reasons

When I uploaded some photos taken using my smartphone I didn’t realise that the wikiMedia website would display all the EXIF metadata from the camera. Please can you add a privacy feature to the user account to hide camera make and model information for my contributions Adrian816 (talk) 14:23, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think that's a technical question about removal of the EXIF metadata from your existing uploads, and about removing EXIF during your future uploads. Perhaps ask Commons:Village pump? --Gryllida 22:30, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If your photo is displayed somewhere and you download it from there, the downloaded file has no EXIF metadata. The problem though is that without the metadata, there is no evidence that you're the photographer. Guido den Broeder (talk) 23:47, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

But metadata may be edited by a some easy ways, and this is not a evidence in the general case. --Kaganer (talk) 14:49, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Push for EU standards

There seems to be a wide push for USA companies to apply the standards of the GDPR worldwide, for all users: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-facebook-ceo-privacy-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-ceo-stops-short-of-extending-european-privacy-globally-idUKKCN1HA2MN

The implications of GDPR may be unclear for our free software, but it would still be helpful if Wikimedia Foundation were ready to answer similar questions. --Nemo 06:06, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Strongly agree. Unjustified expansion of application GDPR is a very dangerous and toxic initiative for free knowledge world (and primarily for Wikimedia Commons). It is very important that the WMF Legal Team investigate this topic and publish a special appeal and lead a public campaign against this expansion. @EHershenov (WMF) and TSebro (WMF): what your opinion about this issue? Maybe someone is already working on learning this?--Kaganer (talk) 15:35, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting privacy violation - IP to real person mapping

Where can one report mappings, true or not, that have been made on Wikimedia sites from an IP address to a living person? 85.179.161.128 09:19, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

On the English Wikipedia, please contact oversight. On other sites, contact their local oversight process. For meta, and other sites without an oversight process, contact a Steward. TheDragonFire (talk) 11:33, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Diff quality

The quite unreadable diff doesn't help the conversation. I recommend that you revert it and apply things like translation unit changes and uppercase changes in separate diffs. Also, some translation units don't follow best practices for translatability. --Nemo 17:28, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Anonymization

It's troubling that the updated section makes specific reference to a guideline specific to the English Wikipedia. What does "for further reference" entail? --Nemo 17:32, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]