RFC: draft of new privacy policy

Wed Sep 2 20:00:26 UTC 2015

On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 15:44:47 -0400,
  "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I believe there was an instance in the distant past where an
>open-source friendly sociological researcher used aggregated community
>data to produce a report.  IIRC she had access to PII in order to
>aggregate and compile the data, but the output report (being
>aggregated) could not be used to identify anyone.  This would be
>similar to the "State of Fedora" case that Máirín raised.

That is a dangerous claim to make. Aggregated data is not as safe from 
analysis as many people assume.

In addition, if that data exists it is subject to subpoenas and NSLs.