[Foundation-l] Privacy concerns

[Birgitte SB]

A notarized statement wouldn't need to contain all the personal info.  Just a 
name and something else to distinguish common names (I suggest an address as the 
snail mail method pretty often will include a return address anyway).   The rest 
of the info like age, nationality, race, identification numbers, etc. is only 
seen by the notary who puts a seal on the document to verify that the signature 
was made by the person with that name.

Birgitte SB



----- Original Message ----
> From: Lodewijk <lodewijk at effeietsanders.org>
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: rm at slmr.com
> Sent: Mon, July 11, 2011 6:50:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy concerns
> 
> I am not sure if that would solve any of the problems that some people  have
> with the current situation. Still the notarized statement (which  includes
> all personal data) would end up with an individual if I  understand
> correctly. It would only add quite a lot of  costs...
> 
> 2011/7/11 Peter Gervai <grinapo at gmail.com>
> 
> > On Mon,  Jul 11, 2011 at 02:28, Robin McCain <robin at slmr.com> wrote:
> >
> > >  I'd say that if you've blocked someone who is a sockpuppet or other
> > >  abuser the burden of validating such a person should be on them, not the
> >  > wiki staff. At least a notary (or other public official) would have  to
> > > look at an identity document - verify its validity as well as  see that
> > > it indeed matches the person in question - then sign a  document to that
> > > effect. This completely removes the wiki staff  from the need to access
> > > the validity of a copy.
> >
> > I  guess it is nice to offer the blocked people this alternative,
> >  privacy-enhanced method along the old one. I'm sure current poster
> > would  be pleased, and I guess the dutch wikigods could accept that
> > solution,  too.
> >
> > --
> >  byte-byte,
> >      grin
> >
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