[Data-modeling] Privacy, public figures, etc

[Jeff Prucher]

Faye wrote:
> I like the idea of separating public figures from the rest of 
> us who wish to hold on to the naive notion of privacy just a 
> little longer. 
> Wikipedia's article creation/deletion wars as a result of 
> their notability rule and the power users' (somewhat 
> irregular/subjective) enforcement of it I'd like to see 
> Freebase avoid. Since anyone can add a type to a topic, using 
> your example, if someone wanted to fill out your family 
> member's personal information, what's to stop that user from 
> doing that? And if removed, what's to prevent the same info 
> from being entered in again?

The bigger issue is really that no data is ever removed from Freebase -- if
people naively enter data about themselves or friends and relatives, and
then realize that they were perhaps unwise and remove that information, the
data is still in Freebase and can be retrieved, even if it doesn't display
in the client or a simple MQL query.

Jeff Prucher