Well, Legal normally makes those calls with the information provided by the devs. I believe Legal is working on dedicated privacy nerds (or was, some months ago?) but with the current environment I've trended towards not believing anything written down more than 3 months ago ;p
On 8 March 2016 at 21:07, Justin Ormont <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a very good document. > > Does WMF have a privacy role? > > The role, as I see it, is to be an advocate for the user's interests, > answering questions like "would the user be surprised to know their data is > being used for X", "would it be ok for NYT to publish that we're doing Y", > "what's the impact if this dataset was released/hacked", and making sure > data handling procedures are in place and followed. The privacy roles I've > interacted with sit between dev/management and legal. Dev says "X would be a > great feature"; legal says "here are the risks of doing X", and privacy says > "X sounds great, go ahead; there is no private data handled in this > pipeline" or "X is doable within a constrained access controlled, strictly > logged and reviewed environment as it contains moderate PII". > > --justin > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> > As my final hurrah, I've released the data access guidelines used by >> > the Discovery team in research and analysis on to Meta. It can be >> > found at >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discovery/Data_access_guidelines >> >> Thank you very much for getting this done! >> >> -- >> Stas Malyshev >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discovery mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > > > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > -- Oliver Keyes Count Logula Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ discovery mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
