A deeper look into the official response by the WMF raises some
questions about what it means in practice and whether a plain English
reading of the words is sufficient.
Q1: WMF tested open source solutions
"[Surveys] [...] we have previously tested and attempted to use open
source solutions such as LimeSurvey"
Can someone please provide the list of the multiple open source
solutions that the WMF has tested and the reports of why they were
each abandoned? This would be incredibly helpful for WMF Affiliates
who are doing exactly the same thing.
Q2: Legal objections
"[...] our Enterprise agreement with Google prevents Google from
accessing the data for their own uses and requires them to inform the
Foundation of any requests for data that they receive prior to
disclosure, allowing us an opportunity to file a legal objection.
[...] we have agreements with other services like Qualtrics"
Re-reading this, it seems an astonishingly generous and legally
binding commitment from Google, Qualtrics, and presumably other
suppliers that have not been named. These suppliers will refuse to
cooperate with legal investigations, such as US Government agencies,
or their own internal security threats, before consulting with WMF
Legal, and will wait for WMF Legal to object.
The question is, can someone please provide a link to a WMF-funded or
approved survey where this agreement was in place, or is it a
statement of what might happen in the future?
Based on my understanding of existing surveys like the still running
UCoC survey, the WMF terms and conditions and the referenced Google
terms and conditions are in direct contradiction to this assertion by
the WMF, and WMF Legal.
Q3: Geographical restriction
"[...] we are purposefully not asking questions about sexual
orientation or gender in any geographies where same-sex relations or
identifying as transgender are criminalized."
Can someone please link to a WMF-funded or approved survey where this
happened, or is this an ambition for the future that has not happened
yet?
In the example of the running UCoC survey (Google docs) this is not in
place. There is a question about gender identity that has the
potential to out people as transgender, and there is no technical
mechanism to filter by geographical location, nor are volunteers asked
to limit themselves if they live in a list of "hostile" countries.
Thanks,
Fae
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On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 at 22:45, Valerio Bozzolan via Wikimedia-l
<wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
+1
And if anyone has this document in their hands, please notify us here:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275574
On Tue, 2021-02-23 at 08:36 +0000, Fæ wrote:
Could someone provide a link to the discussed
security review of
LimeSurvey? I've been unable to find it.
...
Thanks,
Fae
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