[Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

[Joe Szilagyi]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If OTRS is understaffed, then there's an easy fix to that too. Make a
>> separate queue that this specifically will go to, have less stringent
>> requirements in place for that, and have the form be explicit that
>> it's ONLY for articles/issues about living people.
>>
> Excuse me? BLPs are one of the most sensitive tickets that arrive in
> OTRS, because people will often share non-public information on
> themselves and their "cases", under the implication of
> confidentiality.
> If anything, these merit more stringent access requirements!  (I know
> this doesn't help to address the backlog, but we shouldn't forget
> this)
>
> Michael

I understand that, but there is has to be a way to do this if the
Foundation for legal reasons (Section 230) can't take ownership of the
BLP problem directly.

Joe