I suggest that the organizers are accustomed to collecting registration information for educational events involving minors, where collection of personally identifying information of volunteers is in some cases mandatory. For example, one of the educational events I helped start and still volunteer for -- http://hackthefuture.org -- we have "encouraged but not mandatory" LiveScan background checks (usually asked of volunteers who don't know any existing mentors to vouch for them) and tuberculosis skin tests. Wikimedian events have involved very serious transgressions by sexual predators in the past, some of whom relied on anonymity.
Perhaps the organizers can run a second round of enrollment for volunteers who want to maintain their anonymity more than they want to be considered for invitation to events involving minors?
Best regards, Jim
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 8:57 AM Avery Jensen averydjensen@gmail.com wrote:
I do not understand why they are asking people for personal data at all.
The Wikimedia Foundation has requirements for people with access to personal information. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_to_nonpublic_personal_data_policy
It looks like they want to apply for official recognition from the affiliations committee. Groups are not required to do this, but it has some advantages, like using the trademarks. The application requires " two primary contacts willing to identify themselves with the Wikimedia Foundation." https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups It also says if someone wants to form an official group, they can have "Affiliations Committee Liaison support during and after the approval process". If that is what they are trying to do, they need to have some advice about starting a group, so they do not cause the Wikimedia Foundation some legal problem.
I would also strongly recommend that people not post their phone numbers to this list. Unlike the Wikimedia projects, information on a mailing list cannot be removed and is indexed by search engines.
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:59 AM Alexandre Hocquet < alexandre.hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr> wrote:
On 12/11/2018 09:36, Ilario Valdelli wrote:
I agree in that point.
Although what points Ilario is relevant, my main concern (as Avery points out too) is more the use of Google forms with *mandatory* fields to fill than the privacy policy of the user group and/or the "centre for Internet & society" (although I agree that more clarity on that point might help too)
In short, if applying to membership means compulsory give away of pieces of information like phone numbers to Google, then I'm not in.
Alternatively, if google document it is, then the least would be to NOT make the fields to fill up mandatory. --
Alexandre Hocquet
Université de Lorraine & Archives Henri Poincaré Alexandre.Hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet
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