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Michał Górny 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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Suggestion. If potential devs don't want want to share their DOB with |
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everyone, why not do it this way. The mentor asks for, and if needed |
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verifies the age, and then tells whoever is higher up that the person is |
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of age with nothing being recorded or shared except that the age |
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requirement has been met? That one person would be the only one that |
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knows and that person has agreed to keep it confidential. It could even |
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be destroyed if needed. |
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Personally, I would not want to share my full DOB with everyone either. |
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After all, that is one thing a identity thief needs. Sharing the year |
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with one person is something I could agree too. Most of the time, the |
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year should be enough to know if a person is of whatever age requirement. |
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This may not be a perfect solution but if not, maybe it will start a |
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path that leads to one. Back to my hole! |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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