[Foundation-l] Privacy etc - merging data

[Oliver Keyes]

So the logic seems to be thus - if I tell employee X something about my
life, interests, experience, C.V. that could possibly be of use or interest
to the Foundation, it's fine to store it on a central database where all and
sundry within the Foundation can get at it, despite the fact that this was
never my intent.

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:01 AM, K. Peachey <p858snake at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> 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
>
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