[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] AUR ToS (aka making AUR user names public)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 10:52:51 +0100, Henrik Danielsson via arch-general
wrote:
>I guess I'll be the devil's advocate. I see no privacy issues in
>handing over a list of already public information You could deny it
>for practical reasons though, if you simply could not be bothered to
>scrape/export such a list yourself. Denying or allowing won't stop
>anyone from obtaining the list.
>
>If users were concerned about their usernames being public, they
>shouldn't have submitted them publicly. Public information is public,
>deal with it and stop being so paranoid, they're gonna get you
>anyway. ;)

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.