[Foundation-l] Privacy etc - merging data

[Lodewijk]

I'd rather not speculate about what happens or the intent before someone
from the WMF who is responsible for this clarifies the statement. I hope we
all can hold ourselves from guessing and seeking logic until that moment.

Lodewijk

2010/7/17 Oliver Keyes <scire.facias at gmail.com>

> 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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