Policy talk:Privacy policy: Difference between revisions

:::In fact, in the name of transparency, there is an IRC channel where these "unifications" scroll by live whilst they are being made. '''''<font color="#9966CC">[[User:Fr33kman|fr33k]]</font><font color="navy">[[:m:User talk:Fr33kman|man]]</font>''''' 03:10, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

::::From the technical aspect, the centralauth extension automatically creates your account when you view a Wikimedia site for the first time. I would also not classify the extension's automatic actions as in violation of the privacy policy (from a practical standpoint, anyways), as the website is not collecting data from the viewer's computer, but from Wikimedia's servers, and the information that is collected is well within the "no more information is collected than is typically collected by web sites" clause. I won't get too much into that, though, as I am not a lawyer. The event is publicly logged, though it does not appear in the recent changes, and as fr33kman alluded to, the log is public for transparency. [[User:Ajraddatz|Ajraddatz]]<small> ([[User Talk:Ajraddatz|Talk]])</small> 03:49, 24 June 2011 (UTC)