On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 12:11:52PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> at bottom :-
> 
> On 12/05/2018, ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would suggest having an example web-page somewhere as and when possible
> before the official reconfirmation message goes out (whenever that happens) so
> we know how much information would be leaked.

Good idea.

> As far as e-mail address and mobile number masking is concerned, just the 
> first
> four number themselves give lot of info.
> 
> For instance see India's mobile telephone numbering system.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_telephone_numbering_in_India
> 
> Just the first four numbers themselves tells anybody both my operator and the
> region from where I belong. I dunno about other countries but probably each 
> may
> have a different numbering system, how do we ensure that people who might be 
> ok
> with partially masked numbers do not give more than intended ?
> 
> for email addresses, the same thing how would those be partially masked ?

I think in this case, we can just let user to mask these information.
For example, I can provide the following information to DebConf for
fund:

* phone: +8869****0016
* email: c***[email protected]

In this case, I can ensure the information I gave does not breach the
privacy.


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