I had a reply yesterday from WMF legal. The answer is no.
This is based on the WMF believing that they have no policies which
obligate them to explain what records they keep on a volunteer or
provide copies of records, and that there are no data protection laws
that ensure that this information
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
Should WMF Legal say they are happy for me to do so, I will be happy
to publish their reply in full.
Our reply, as I sent it at 7:58 pm Pacific time, Sep. 9:
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Hi, Ashley-
As you know, the Wikimedia Foundation keeps
If you don't know of a policy which gives you the right to ask
something, why ask that something?
Instead, ask something you know you have the right to ask; for instance,
EU citizens have the right, by privacy law, to ask what PII an entity
has about them.
Nemo
But if the entity refuses to answer, one has limited recourse, especially
if that entity is American, or trans-Atlantic.
On 24 August 2014 16:50, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
If you don't know of a policy which gives you the right to ask
something, why ask that something?
I'd worry about that only after a rejection. :-) However, while I don't
know about UK, in Italy I see several degrees of administrative recourse
at the data protection authority. Here's a list:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/eu/index_en.htm
Nemo
Hello Fae,
as far as I know there is no systematic data collection about volunteers
by the WMF, anyway, there is non that is known by the board at my time,
or ever mentioned on the board. In the first year when I joined the
board I mentioned in a mail that it would be desirable for the
I wrote the email below to Lila and the WMF Legal department asking
for access to records (and reports) they hold on me, but I'm sad to
say that after 3 weeks waiting, I have yet to receive an
acknowledgement. As a Wikimania London volunteer I had a moment to
speak with Jan-Bart, and some of my
Hi Fae,
in the Netherlands it is quite common for this kind of reqeusts to take
several weeks (the government usually allows itself up to six weeks to even
acknowledge receipt). Given the fact that the legal department was over
their heads busy in the past weeks, I am not very surprised it is
Hi Fae/Everyone
Just to be clear, although the text below is factually correct it implies that
the two of us talked about your request at Wikimania, which we did not. We
talked for a total of around 60 seconds, most of which was spent on me
explaining that I was looking for someon in a hurry,
To avoid tangents, here is my email trimmed to the 2 key points with no
background:
Can someone recommend if there is a WMF policy on transparency that applies?
Does the law in the USA give rights of access to records or reports the WMF
may keep on volunteers?
Fae
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