[Wikimania-l] Privacy of registration data

[Austin Hair]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:08 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.ayers at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: HaeB <haebwiki at gmail.com>
> Date: 2010/6/16
> Subject: Privacy of registration data
> To: wikimania-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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> Hi,
>
> by its nature, the Wikimania registration form at
> https://wm10reg.wikimedia.org/ needs to ask for sensitive personal
> information. However, it currently does not state what this
> information will be used for and who will have access to it. I was
> told that the usual Wikimedia privacy policy applies - could we add a
> link to it on the registration form, for clarification?
> (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy) Thanks!

It is indeed the case that all registration information is being
handled in accordance with WMF's privacy policy, and has been from the
very beginning.  I've just added a notice to that effect in the most
prominent place I could think of.

I and everyone else working on this project treat this very seriously,
so please let me know if we can do anything more to address your
concerns.

Austin