On sab, 2011-04-09 at 14:37 +0100, Alex Kavanagh wrote: > Um, more to the point, why do they *need* your date of birth? Surely, > if it's just to make sure you're 18 or over, there can be a tick box > saying 'please tick to indicate you're over 18'? Or is there some > strange law I'm not aware of?
It's written in the help popup of the field. Italian laws require us to do behave differently if we are dealing with minors that are between 14 and 18, and below 14. Plus you would need to explain whether you mean "over 14/18 today" or "over 14/18 at the conference". It seemed easier to us just to ask for a date field, in case *other* laws come up later in the game. It's clearly written that we will not publish this information. In fact, we have *striven* to require as little personal information as legally possible, throughout the whole website, both in the ticket purchase procedure and the speaker talk submission. -- Giovanni Bajo _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2011 - Florence June 20-26 http://ep2011.europython.eu/ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
