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On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 1:32 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> W dniu śro, 20.06.2018 o godzinie 10∶24 +0200, użytkownik Kristian |
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> Fiskerstrand napisał: |
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> > On 06/20/2018 10:16 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > However, I'm not aware of any good |
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> > > justification for collecting this kind of personal information. |
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> > Immediately I can think of two good reasons for this information, (i) as |
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> > a disambiguifier for matching names, at least across europe it is common |
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> > to refer to an individual "A born DD.MM.YYYY", |
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> Please tell me, how many times did we have to disambiguate two |
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> developers using the same name? Even if we ever have to do that, do you |
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> really think we'd use one's birthday all over the place? |
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> > (ii) verify legal age for |
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> > entering into agreements. One can argue that without further |
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> > verification of (ii) it has less value, but at least that would be a |
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> > misrepresentation so shifting the question a bit if it ever becomes an |
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> > issue with FLA/DCO etc. |
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> a. 'Legal age' may differ per country, so birth date alone is not very |
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> useful. |
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> b. There is no reason to store the full birth date if all we need is |
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> a boolean whether someone is of 'legal age'. |
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> c. We don't even have any clue what to do if someone is *not* of 'legal |
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> age'. |
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As a logical issue, I will point out that point a, legal age differing |
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per country, directly contradicts point b, using a simple boolean. |
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The fact that there are multiple countries with possible disparate |
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concepts of "legal age" preempts the usefulness of a simple boolean, |
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and in my observation actually *increases* the viability of using DOB |
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as legal age. |
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Quite simply, if we WERE to use a single boolean the first question |
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we'd have on our hands when answering "is this developer of legal age" |
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is first to ask "of what country?" |
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> -- |
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> Best regards, |
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> Michał Górny |