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. > > > > -- > 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 > >
