On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Giovanni Bajo <ra...@develer.com> wrote:
> 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. > Ah, sounds good. Sorry for the noise. I guess it pushed my 'privacy button'. Apologies for over-reacting! Alex.
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