Board Thread:Chat Discussion/@comment-5590118-20141120182446/@comment-10950063-20141124191823

It would seem that the simplest thing to do would be to not give out personal information in a public chat. It's a ridiculous, non-issue to me. Everyone was fine with the chat being logged, so all of that information was preserved on the site. Not just on the site, but fully accessible from search engines.

Would it be a problem if Maria manually went through the logs and got the info? Or if he sat in chat and and made a note every time anybody said something. I don't see why it would be. It's there. So, why does it matter if a bot does it?

Because he didn't tell anyone? Welcome to the internet. You're being tracked and your information is being logged all over the place. Should he have said something? Yeah, probably, but at the same time no rules were being broken. Not telling people isn't the main issue.

The main issue is if you don't want your personal information in the hands of others, don't say it in a public chat open to everyone that also has a bot that logs and publishes that information on a public site open to everyone.