@ Roger, I do like good news and beer. For beer you can call me Jennifer.

Jess


On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:43 AM, rupert THURNER <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Saturday, 9 February 2013 at 20:08, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> >> On 9 February 2013 18:39, Tom Morris <[email protected] (mailto:
> [email protected])> wrote:
> >> > Now this has been transferred to Wikimedia UK, would it be possible to
> >> > remove the access logging on QRpedia to ensure it complies with both
> the
> >> > letter and spirit of the WMF privacy policy.
> >>
> >>
> >> Is it possible to do that and retain the aggregated, anonymised
> >> statistics which GLAM institutions and others deploying QRpedia find
> >> useful? These may be analogous to Wikipedias page view stats.
> >
> >
> >
> > That seems highly reasonable. The current issue is that the QRpedia
> database has a complete log of which IPs looked up which pages and when.
> >
> > (Which is fine, I'm not blaming Roger or Terence. That's a perfectly
> reasonable thing to do with something you are starting. This isn't a
> security hole or a privacy intrusion, it's a standard thing anyone would do
> when building a project like this. But now it has reached a point of
> maturity and is being taken under the wing of WMUK, we need to ensure that
> it is compliant with the expectations of Wikimedia users.)
> >
> > We need to anonymise the access data, aggregate it and then delete the
> non-anonymised, non-aggregated data. I'm happy to fling code around and
> figure out a way to do this. I've had a look at the existing code and it's
> easy enough to understand. We could probably do with refactoring some of
> the code too.
> >
> > I'd suggest that it would be best for WMUK to adhere completely with the
> Foundation's privacy policy (mentally substitute "chapter" and "WMUK" in
> the relevant places) even if the chapter is not formally bound by the
> Foundation policy (I'm not a movement policy wonk, I don't know). In
> addition, not holding on to access logs but only aggregate, anonymised data
> means that we minimise the potential for problems under the Data Protection
> Act or wider European data privacy law.
> >
> > ... that we resolve these kinds of issues in the next week or so (I
> rather prefer fixing issues when they exist only in my head rather than
> when people are shouting like maniacs). As I said, I'm happy to provide
> patches and code review in the next few days.
>
> i'd highly appreciate this, many thanks tom! and thanks as well for
> reminding about policies, i suggested a task in the chapters
> association s task list to make clear(er) in the important policies if
> they should apply for the movement, and not only for the wmf:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Tasks
>
> rupert.
>
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