I do not understand why they are asking people for personal data at all. The Wikimedia Foundation has requirements for people with access to personal information. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_to_nonpublic_personal_data_policy
It looks like they want to apply for official recognition from the affiliations committee. Groups are not required to do this, but it has some advantages, like using the trademarks. The application requires " two primary contacts willing to identify themselves with the Wikimedia Foundation." https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups It also says if someone wants to form an official group, they can have "Affiliations Committee Liaison support during and after the approval process". If that is what they are trying to do, they need to have some advice about starting a group, so they do not cause the Wikimedia Foundation some legal problem. I would also strongly recommend that people not post their phone numbers to this list. Unlike the Wikimedia projects, information on a mailing list cannot be removed and is indexed by search engines. On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:59 AM Alexandre Hocquet < [email protected]> wrote: > On 12/11/2018 09:36, Ilario Valdelli wrote: > > I agree in that point. > > Although what points Ilario is relevant, my main concern (as Avery > points out too) is more the use of Google forms with *mandatory* fields > to fill than the privacy policy of the user group and/or the "centre for > Internet & society" (although I agree that more clarity on that point > might help too) > > In short, if applying to membership means compulsory give away of pieces > of information like phone numbers to Google, then I'm not in. > > Alternatively, if google document it is, then the least would be to NOT > make the fields to fill up mandatory. > -- > *********************************************** > Alexandre Hocquet > > Université de Lorraine & Archives Henri Poincaré > [email protected] > http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet > *********************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
