Sure it would reduce the amount of private data considered, but also the name&address could (should) be considered private, and hence it wouldn't take away the fundamental concerns as they are stated by several people.
Best,
Lodewijk
2011/7/12 Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com
A notarized statement wouldn't need to contain all the personal info. Just a name and something else to distinguish common names (I suggest an address as the snail mail method pretty often will include a return address anyway). The rest of the info like age, nationality, race, identification numbers, etc. is only seen by the notary who puts a seal on the document to verify that the signature was made by the person with that name.
Birgitte SB
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From: Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: rm@slmr.com Sent: Mon, July 11, 2011 6:50:57 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy concerns
I am not sure if that would solve any of the problems that some people
have
with the current situation. Still the notarized statement (which
includes
all personal data) would end up with an individual if I understand correctly. It would only add quite a lot of costs...
2011/7/11 Peter Gervai grinapo@gmail.com
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 02:28, Robin McCain robin@slmr.com wrote:
I'd say that if you've blocked someone who is a sockpuppet or other abuser the burden of validating such a person should be on them, not
the
wiki staff. At least a notary (or other public official) would have
to
look at an identity document - verify its validity as well as see
that
it indeed matches the person in question - then sign a document to
that
effect. This completely removes the wiki staff from the need to
access
the validity of a copy.
I guess it is nice to offer the blocked people this alternative, privacy-enhanced method along the old one. I'm sure current poster would be pleased, and I guess the dutch wikigods could accept that solution, too.
-- byte-byte, grin
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