[Foundation-l] Privacy etc - merging data

[K. Peachey]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk at effeietsanders.org> wrote:
>
> I am assuming that people will be warned and asked for permission in advance
> to combine these databases? I for one would definitely have strong
> objections against merging donation and edit data. Donations are real life,
> edits are wikipedia-universe. Although I do realize that it is much more
> convenient for staff to have this data combined, I find this objectionable
> from the privacy point of view. (putting this in a new thread to seperate
> discussions a bit) I am not sure of legal requirements in this field in the
> US - but I hope Wikipedia will always adhere to also for example European
> principles in this regard whether it is maybe or maybe not legally obliged
> to.
>
> Best,
>
> Lodewijk
What I believe this is referring to, is that the Customer Relation
Manager (CRM) [CiviCRM iirc] to be setup to allow for some details
about the people to be stored such as their usernames/interests/etc
compared to it just being a word of mouth system where staff members
need to track down which staff know who.

So for example a staff member can look up a person and go "oh Jimmy
Bloggs is interested in political photograph, X might interest him"
compared to say "Jimmy Bloggs was entered by Sally Doors, I need to go
talk to her," who redirects to someone else that knows more about the
subject.

-Peachey