[Foundation-l] privacy policy update

[Kwan Ting Chan]

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 18:32 -0700, Michael Snow wrote:
> >
> > Question : will the notification occur before WMF actually produce the
> > information so that the member of the community can challenge the
> > information request through whatever legal process that may be available
> > to them?
> >   
> The resolution covers both the case where information has only "been 
> sought", as well as where it has been "produced" already. It also 
> acknowledges that in some cases the notice itself may be forbidden 
> (compare the recent news story about the Internet Archive, which 
> successfully resisted an FBI attempt to extract information, but was 
> forbidden to disclose it while the matter was being litigated). 
> Otherwise, clearly we would prefer to notify affected parties prior to 
> producing information, but given the varied circumstances that might 
> lead to such a request, we cannot promise this in every situation.

My question did have the implicit assumption that the foundation are
legally able to notify the member before the information were produced.
Thanks for the response.

KTC

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