Your camera doesn't stop you to film other people. Yet if you upload a video to YouTube that is not allowed.
Similar to IRC. You can keep a chat log of everything. But publishing it is a grey area.
Just to get this right:
- You are allowed to analyze this data for private purposes.
- You are allowed to share insights (e.g. see the funny cloud diagram of most used words in chat)
- You are not allowed to analyze single person behaviors or do a social rating and publish this (or basically do anything that relates back to a single user)
If I see it on the official FAF platform anywhere I will remove it and give that person a warning (or have moderation do it).
However, I cannot prevent you from publishing it elsewhere and if you do so and it falls back to us legally in worst case we'll have to take other measures whatever they might be (e.g. take down the replay vault as the final action if no other solution).
That's why I'm asking kindly for now. Just let's stay out of trouble and everybody can still have fun.