The fact that this came up in the context of subpoenas argues in the
other direction. That meeting attendance is subject to subpoena was
probably not evident (or disclosed) to most attendees. What kinds of
legal process does the Trust respond to? Do requests have to have
court backing, or would the blue sheets be disclosed to anyone who
wanted to see them? I agree that in the context of blue sheets, the
answers to these questions are unlikely to be frequently invoked. But
it still makes sense to have a policy around it and to disclose that
policy. Otherwise, people who would want to avoid signing a sheet due
to privacy concerns wouldn't even know of their need to avoid signing.
Furthermore, the blue sheets are in some ways the least of the data
collected by the IETF. What happens to all of our meeting registration
and payment data? What about the server logs for the IETF web sites?
I'm not saying less data should be collected (I don't really know
enough to evaluate that). I just think there should be a policy for
protecting that data and the people it describes. It is hard to come
by an organization web site that doesn't contain a privacy policy
these days.
Alissa
On Jul 30, 2009, at 5:32 PM, David Morris wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Alissa Cooper wrote:
The discussion about blue sheets begs the question: does the IETF
(or the Trust) have a privacy policy? I did a quick look for one
but I didn't see one posted anywhere. If there's a legal entity
collecting personal information (which there obviously is), it
should have a privacy policy.
It is a stretch, which my imagination can't fathom, to consider a
list of attendees in a public meeting to be personal information.
Give the ease with which one can avoid having one's name recorded, I
don't see any issue except the administrative support issues related
to storing old paper.
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