smolt privacy policy

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Wed Feb 21 03:46:01 UTC 2007


Luis Villa wrote:
> On 2/19/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Mike McGrath wrote:
>> > I've created a first draft of the smolt Privacy Policy.  Please 
>> note: It
>> > is not a legal document, it's the Infrastructures policy of how 
>> we'll be
>> > protecting the information.
>>
>> Instead of having privacy policies per program, it would probably be
>> better to vet the project wide policy drafted at
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/PrivacyPolicy through the legal
>> team. It has been sitting there for a while now.
>
> I get the sense that you're talking about a privacy policy, Rahul, and
> maybe Mike is talking more about a privacy architecture or privacy
> strategy? Just from reading the two documents, it seems they have some
> overlapping text and goals but are mostly operating at two different
> levels.
>
> Mike, would it make sense to retitle your doc as a privacy strategy or
> privacy implementation doc, whose goal is to explain how smolt will
> implement the project privacy policy Rahul pointed at? 
I think that policy was something that was created and never finished.  
I'm not even sure what context to apply to it.  Who maintains it?
> Calling it a
> privacy policy seems a little confusing, esp. if there is already a
> project privacy policy. Making this distinction might also (1) reduce
> the need for lawyers, who can hopefully focus on validating the
> requirements in the policy doc, rather than validating the
> implementation details in smolt (2) help provide a practical test for
> the overall privacy policy- if there are goals you're setting in the
> smolt doc, or questions the smolt doc raises, which aren't in the
> overall policy, this might be a good way to shake those out and get
> them into the bigger/broader doc.
>
What if I "mv PrivacyPolicy YourPrivacy" ?

    -Mike




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