Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-145064-20140320170332/@comment-24459186-20140320213708

" invasion of privacy  n. the intrusion into the personal life of another, without just cause, which can give the person whose privacy has been invaded a right to bring a lawsuit for damages against the person or entity that intruded. However, public personages are not protected in most situations, since they have placed themselves already within the public eye, and their activities (even personal and sometimes intimate) are considered newsworthy, i.e. of legitimate public interest. However, an otherwise non-public individual has a right to privacy from: 1) intrusion on one's solitude or into one's private affairs; 2) public disclosure of embarrassing private information; 3) publicity which puts him/her in a false light to the public; 4) appropriation of one's name or picture for personal or commercial advantage."

Source -  http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/invasion+of+privacy

In other words, the joining if a Public Chat Room has relinquished your rights of so called 'Privacy' within said chat room as any and all things said is veiwable to the Public, hence the name 'Public Chat Room'. Unless this information has been taken directly from an otherwise hard to access area, such as a personal journal or a copy right of sorts, then it does not go beyond what is legally Private.

Shaw Fujikawa summed it up quite well, I only felt the need to iteriate further into the subject so as to close out any loose ends.

In my own opinion, I see nothing wrong with a Public Chat room being logged. Having it logged doesnt mean that any one has to change how they act regularly, I'm sure everyone here loves to be witty and sarcastic once in a while and joke around with friends. Nothing rule breaking there. So, the only things I can see that would 'change' in people, would be that maybe they'll take a second thought before posting a shady internet link, or maybe revise a long statement containing many uneeded vulgarities.

Apoligies for the wall of text, just topics like this are quite tricky to lean into correctly.