On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Gavin Sharp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I should perhaps clarify, though, that I don't really think there's a
>> need for a project-wide policy to enforce that channels must be
>> logged, and that's probably what Yvan is reacting strongly to. Most of
>> the important public IRC channels are already being publicly logged,
>> as mentioned, and where they aren't it's easy enough to reach out to
>> the channel owner and change that.
>>
>
> Right and my proposal is to have global policy including which channels
> must be exempt due to sensitive discussions (I can think of a handful
> myself) and then create a process for starting logging and opting out of
> channel logging by a channel owner.
>

Requiring channel owners to opt out of public logging to a Mozilla
resources on behalf of their users (imo) is not consistent with the
published data privacy principles
<https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2014/11/11/mozillas-data-privacy-principles-revisited/>.
Not the least of which is the No Suprises - many users would be surprised
to learn that after years of telling users "we don't log irc", we start
logging it and publishing it.

I understand that users cannot control data that may be collected and
republished by individuals, but this discussion isn't about what *others*
are doing with data, it's about what Mozilla is doing with data.


> But having them hosted at something like irclogs.mozilla.org and
> searchable versus glob hosting them all makes more sense imho.
>
> At the end of the day thought I imagine unless someone disabled the
> default logging on the ircd that Mozilla technically already globally logs
> all user communications even though in private message. Whether they
> disabled it or not I am unsure and how long those logs are retained I am
> unsure and who has access I am unsure.
>
> Default Inspircd config has all user input/output logged by default:
>
> https://gitorious.org/inspircd/inspircd/source/911e33e3995509afa4cf3ea8fae0ddca2dad78dc:conf/inspircd.conf.example#L706
>
>
It is my understanding that we retain only enough logs to satisfy
operational needs, although I can inquire with operations team if you would
like.
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