In the mix...EU data retention laws, Wikipedia growing

1) Australia thinking about requiring ISPs to record browsing histories (via Truste).

Electronic Frontier Australia (EFA) chair Colin Jacobs said the regime was "a step too far"."At some point data retention laws can be reasonable, but highly-personal information such as browsing history is a step too far," Jacobs said. "You can't treat everybody like a criminal. That would be like tapping people's phones before they are suspected of doing any crime."

Sounds shocking, but the EU already requires it.2) European privacy officials are pointing out that Microsoft, Google and Yahoo's methods of "anonymization" are not good enough to comply with EU requirements (via EFF).  As we've been saying for awhile, "anonymization" is not a very precise claim.  (Even though they also want ISPs to retain browsing histories for law enforcement--confused? I am.)3) Wikipedia is adding two new executive roles.  In the process of researching our community study, it really struck me how small Wikipedia's staff was compared to the staff of more centralized, less community-run businesses like Yelp and Facebook.  Having two more staff members is not a huge increase, but it does make me wonder, is a larger staff inevitable when an organization tries to assert more editorial control over what the community produces?