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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Date-of-birth in developer applications
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:24:57
Message-Id: 756a345e-0209-9643-c94f-1cf94321eb2a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Date-of-birth in developer applications by "Michał Górny"
1 On 06/20/2018 10:16 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > However, I'm not aware of any good
3 > justification for collecting this kind of personal information.
4
5 Immediately I can think of two good reasons for this information, (i) as
6 a disambiguifier for matching names, at least across europe it is common
7 to refer to an individual "A born DD.MM.YYYY", (ii) verify legal age for
8 entering into agreements. One can argue that without further
9 verification of (ii) it has less value, but at least that would be a
10 misrepresentation so shifting the question a bit if it ever becomes an
11 issue with FLA/DCO etc.
12
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14 Kristian Fiskerstrand
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Re: [gentoo-project] Date-of-birth in developer applications "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>