2009/11/12 Ingo Klöcker <[email protected]>: > On Thursday 12 November 2009, Thomas Zander wrote: >> > user accounts (gitorous accounts need to have a realname) >> > ** get opt-in privacy agreement. TASK: eean. (coordinate with >> > johann) >> >> Everyone that every has had an svn account has his info publicly >> available (see accounts files), whats different on gitorious that >> there is a privacy issue? > > The problem is not that the info is publicly available. The problem is > the transfer of the private data to gitorious. German law (and probably > also the data protection law in other countries) forbids the transfer > of personal data unless the person has explicitly consented to this. It > is irrelevant that the data is publicly available in the accounts file. > In fact, I wonder whether all people listed in the accounts file are > aware that their name and email address is publicly available. ... > Okay, http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Get_a_SVN_Account explicitly > states that the account list is public. So (hopefully) no problem with > this. Nevertheless, that does not give us the legitimation to give this > data to other entities like gitorious.
The issue isn't us giving gitorious info (people are probably going to sign themselves up), its gitorious giving info to us. Ian _______________________________________________ Kde-scm-interest mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-scm-interest
