https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/15/wikimedia_china_bans/
"The Wikimedia Foundation has revealed efforts to gather personal information
on some Chinese Wikipedia editors by entities opposed to their activities on
the platform and likely to threaten the targets' privacy or well-being.
The foundation's response has been to ban seven users in mainland China, cancel
sysop privileges for another dozen, and warn plenty more Wikipedia editors to
modify their behaviour.
The bans and warnings were revealed in a Monday letter from Maggie Dennis, the
foundation's vice president of community resilience and sustainability. This
move followed the detection of what Dennis described in a statement as
"information about infiltration of Wikimedia systems, including positions with
access to personally identifiable information and elected bodies of influence."
The foundation contracted a security firm, which assessed that the ongoing
situation "placed multiple users at risk." Dennis's letter describes the
exposure of personal information of Chinese editors, and states "we know that
some users have been physically harmed as a result."
The Wikimedia Foundation therefore decided some of the perpetrators had to be
sanctioned."
Via Diane A.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
