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Legal is a separate issue. Although as you point out in your email, the
likelihood of someone issuing a subpoena to understand anyone's
Wikipedia editing habits is highly unlikely. Our legal team did look at
the confidentiality statement in the survey. The foundation would have
raw and anonymous data, but for presentation there would not be any
identity attached. <br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Mani Pande, PhD
Head of Global Development Research
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: manipande
Skype: manipande
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On 3/16/11 1:39 AM, Eleri James wrote:
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valign="top">If 'anonymize' means that the raw data from the survey is
ditched after being 'anonymized' then there is no practical way for WMF
to be required to hand over information in response to a subpoena. But
if the raw data is retrievable, then I don't understand how this data
escapes from being subject to potential disclosure to outside law
enforcement agencies in the US, as explained in the WMF general privacy
policy. Are surveys specifically excepted in the US laws covering
access to data held by US organizations? In practice it is highly
unlikely that any law enforcement agency will be interested in
someone's editing habits on Wikipedia. But your statement of
confidentiality makes a sweeping promise of confidentiality, which does
not mention the exception with regard to law enforcement agencies in
the general policy. Have you had a legal opinion on the potential
consequences in the unlikely event of the survey data being subject to
a subpoena, given that you are promising not to disclose any
information? Do you regard the risk as so small that you prefer to
stick with the promise of non-disclosure in the face of a subpoena?<br>
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Regards,<br>
Eleri James<br>
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Subject: Re: [Translators-l] Wikipedia Editors Survey 2011<br>
To: "Wikimedia Translators" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org"><translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org></a><br>
Date: Tuesday, 15 March, 2011, 15:18<br>
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<div id="yiv1305420367"> We are going to anonymize the
responses so individual responses are not
associated with individual respondents. The foundation is committed to
the privacy of the respondents, and believes that protecting the
privacy of its users and survey respondents is of utmost importance. <br>
Mani<br>
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Twitter: manipande
Skype: manipande
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On 3/15/11 7:30 AM, Klaas Van Be wrote:
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<div>I'm not convinced about the privacy concerning this
survey and
I'm not the only one</div>
<div>At <a moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow"
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<div>are yet some other remarks. Please read them before
you publish
this to the entire community.</div>
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<div>Klaas aka Patio4it</div>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">First:
CheckUsers
are always able to track you so for them it's never
anonymous unless you fill them out in an Internet café...<br>
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<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">
<dd
style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In
the personal questions should always be the option "Don't know/Don't
want to tell"</dd>
<dd
style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Examples:</dd>
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<ul
style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square;">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Do you have children?"
- Men,
including me, in certain circumstances don't know...</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Monthly income" -
Freelancers
and criminals don't want to reveal this for obvious reasons.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Gender" - Even this
may cause
problems incase of 'transsexual' and 'transgender' (BTW those words are
synonyms)</li>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Patio" title="User:Patio"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none;">Patio</a> 11:28,
13
March 2011 (UTC)</p>
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