We aren't asking their passport number. Also email and phone number can be
masked partially.

Yao Wei
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 07:11 shirish शिरीष <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> >
>
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>           Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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