Previous request: T104883, T214820
But this time for a completely different reason: Once IP masking is deployed (currently it is deployed in one beta wiki), various tools and workflows need CheckUser to work, such as T349577: Update Nuke code to query CheckUser.
As the WMF-Legal project tag was added to this task, some general information to avoid wrong expectations:
Please note that public tasks in Wikimedia Phabricator are in general not a place where to expect feedback from the Legal Team of the Wikimedia Foundation due to the scope of the team and/or nature of legal topics. See the project tag description.
Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal for when and how to contact the Legal Team. Thanks!