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wikipedia at computerkultur Jun 3, 2009, 11:18 PM Views: 1014 Permalink Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies Hi, recently the report of the KnowPrivacy [1] study - a research project by the School of Information from University of California in Berkeley - hit the German media [2]. It came to the conclusion that "All of the top 50 websites contained at least one web bug at some point in a one month time period." [3] which includes wikipedia.org. This is very troubleing and irritating for some of our (German) users who are very sensitive to data privacy topics. So I established contact to Brian W. Carver (University of California) who connected me to David Cancel, the maintainer of Ghostery, which was used to identify the web bugs. David wrote me today: > The following web bug trackers were reported to us, on the following subdomains: > Google Analytics - vls.wikipedia.org > Doubleclick - hu.wikipedia.org > Both were seen in yesterday's data so they're recent. We don't receive any page level information so that's as much detail as we have. Hope that helps. I wasn't able to track down the Doubleclick web bug on the hungarian Wikipedia, but Google Analytics web bug is integrated in every page of the West Flemish Wikipedia via JavaScript [4]. Our privacy policy [5] states "The Wikimedia Foundation may keep raw logs of such transactions [IP and other technical information], but these will not be published or used to track legitimate users." and "As a general principle, the access to, and retention of, personally identifiable data in all projects should be minimal and should be used only internally to serve the well-being of the projects." I think we should stop the current use of Google Analytics ASAP. Bye, Tim. -- http://wikimedia.de [1] http://knowprivacy.org [2] http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Studie-Google-fuehrend-bei-Web-Bug-Nutzung--/meldung/139841 [3] http://www.knowprivacy.org/report/KnowPrivacy_Final_Report.pdf, p. 4 [4] http://vls.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js [5] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l[at]lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Subject User Time Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies wikipedia at computerkultur Jun 3, 2009, 11:18 PM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies midom.lists at gmail Jun 3, 2009, 11:55 PM         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies smolensk at eunet Jun 4, 2009, 3:20 AM             Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies usenet at tonal Jun 4, 2009, 7:07 AM         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies gtisza at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 6:23 AM             Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies wikipedia at computerkultur Jun 4, 2009, 6:58 AM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies usenet at tonal Jun 4, 2009, 3:01 AM         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies vacuum at jeb Jun 4, 2009, 3:20 AM             Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies vacuum at jeb Jun 4, 2009, 3:48 AM             Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies usenet at tonal Jun 4, 2009, 4:07 AM                 Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies vacuum at jeb Jun 4, 2009, 4:33 AM                     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies usenet at tonal Jun 4, 2009, 7:03 AM                         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies cimonavaro at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 8:08 PM         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies unionhawk.sitemod at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 8:13 AM         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies Simetrical+wikilist at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 10:44 AM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies pdsanchez at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 4:21 AM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies dgerard at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 4:27 AM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies andrew.gray at dunelm Jun 4, 2009, 6:00 AM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies mikelifeguard at fastmail Jun 4, 2009, 6:30 AM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies dgerard at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 7:56 AM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies wikipedia at verizon Jun 4, 2009, 8:13 AM         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies unionhawk.sitemod at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 8:23 AM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies swatjester at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 8:35 AM         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies mrzmanwiki at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 9:32 AM             Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies midom.lists at gmail Jun 7, 2009, 11:02 AM         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies rarohde at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 9:53 AM         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies vacuum at jeb Jun 4, 2009, 8:27 PM             Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies swatjester at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 9:00 PM     Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies erikzachte at infodisiac Jun 4, 2009, 10:19 AM         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies dgerard at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 4:35 PM         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies vacuum at jeb Jun 4, 2009, 9:28 PM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies scream at nonvocalscream Jun 4, 2009, 10:52 AM         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies thomas.dalton at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 10:59 AM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies rarohde at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 11:02 AM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies dgerard at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 1:12 PM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies andrew.gray at dunelm Jun 4, 2009, 1:45 PM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies saintonge at telus Jun 4, 2009, 3:19 PM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies usenet at tonal Jun 4, 2009, 6:25 PM         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies thomas.dalton at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 6:29 PM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies vacuum at jeb Jun 4, 2009, 8:51 PM         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies mrzmanwiki at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 9:15 PM             Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies vacuum at jeb Jun 4, 2009, 9:49 PM                 Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies mrzmanwiki at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 10:52 PM                     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies vacuum at jeb Jun 4, 2009, 11:14 PM                         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies mrzmanwiki at gmail Jun 4, 2009, 11:32 PM                         Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies Simetrical+wikilist at gmail Jun 5, 2009, 6:33 AM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies vacuum at jeb Jun 4, 2009, 9:02 PM     Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies usenet at tonal Jun 5, 2009, 3:20 AM

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