2017-03-06 11:18 GMT+01:00 Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet@zoho.com>:
Privacy is a principle. You seem not to understand the difference between giving somebody data with the formal permission to use this data and data that simply is available for everybody, but not explicitly handed over to somebody. Paranoia isn't involved in my concern.
My standpoint is that privacy does not apply to this kind of public information, simply because it's not private and by no means sensitive (people freely chose the username and other visible info they posted, no?). Thus, no, I see no difference and really no point in even considering trying to keep such information private. What anyone does with the freely available information posted in the AUR is up to them ("mining" it or handing it over to someone else included), we could not do anything about it anyway, nor would I even care if I was in that list or not, since there seems to be no ToS between the one submitting that information and the one publishing it. Since it was freely submitted without any terms, I can simply not find any restrictions on its usage. Yes, we should have a ToS to at least keep the principle of privacy alive. But let's face it, real privacy online has been dead for long, if it ever existed. If there was a ToS, the situation would perhaps have been different, at least legally. I'm no legal expert of course, but to me it makes perfect sense that if you posted something on the internet, in a very public space, you can have no expectations of keeping any of that information private in any way, nor any information easily associated with. No, I don't see that as a problem, at least not if you never explicitly agreed that information would not be shared. What I really want to keep private I don't post anywhere.