On 11/05/2018, shirish शिरीष <[email protected]> wrote: > Reply in-line :- > > On 10/05/2018, Yao Wei <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> > > Hi, > >> (I would like to give a recap of previous email, since that information >> is not complete.) >> >> Some of our funds (MEET TAIWAN, NCTU and probably NCHC) requires us to >> give them a list of attendees. >> >> According to the information from MEET TAIWAN, this includes their >> nationality, phone number, email address, company and occupations to >> give them the proof that our conference meets their funding requirements >> (at least 30 foreign people in a conference) and is close to the number >> of expected attendees during application. >> >> NCTU also needs that list to apply funds to cover their own venue cost. >> >> However, we do care about the privacy of attendees, and would like to >> take opt-in approach. During the global team meeting this week we >> discussed to ask attendees on the website if they are willing to give >> such information to the government and the university for us to gather >> more funds to cover the expense. >> >> If we agree on this, we have to implement this opt-in page in our >> registration system (or confirmation page), also tells attendees what >> data we are gathering, and to whom we are giving to. >> > > As a potential attendee, I do see minefields here as there isn't > clarity on few topics - > > a. How are attendees to know if the data shared would be limited to - > > 1. One government organization - in this case meet taiwan > 2. The University - in this case NCTU > > and is/would be there any privacy agreements between these parties and > debconf to make sure that the information shared isn't spread (at the very > least). This would make at least some of the attendees sleep better at night > if they > need/want to share the info. > > b. Some of the information asked is and would be pretty invasive for > e.g. asking people's mobile numbers, passport number, e-mail address etc. > till we > don't have any clear idea many people would be hesitant as this data could be > easily put to nefarious uses e.g. 'identity theft' . >
See my question asked on a similar topic at https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/69473/what-damage-can-person-s-do-if-they-have-your-passport-number-and-visa-control-n > c. There is also no clarity about how much funds can be expected per person > from 'Meet Taiwan' in exchange of this info. and how that works with > the budget. > > d. On the University side, I can understand at least the part of the > name and the passport number as I would have to part with that info. if I were > staying either at a hotel/hostel or even a guest house for that matter but > that's my > opinion. > > e. There were some other governmental organizations which are/were also > interested to share some of our expenses, do they similar requirements ? > >> This is partially influenced by GDPR requirements because we have many >> people coming from EU and Taiwan is not protected by the privacy shield. >> >> Best regards, >> Yao Wei >> > > Looking forward for some clarity. > -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8
