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Fedora considering a new privacy policy
For a while now, we've been butting up against the Red Hat Privacy Policy (which we've been using to cover Fedora). To try to address some of these concerns, I sat down and made a new privacy policy for Fedora to use that is independent of Red Hat's Privacy Policy. I made a draft, then sent it over to Red Hat Legal for review. They made some minor changes and sent it back to me. Here it is for you folks to look over: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TomCallaway/PrivacyPolicyD... Keep in mind that while this is more open than the Red Hat Privacy Policy, I think it is more in keeping with the spirit of Fedora. (Also, it is directly derived from Red Hat's privacy policy, so its not as if I completely rewrote it from scratch). Barring any major failures, I plan to present this for approval at next week's board meeting. Comments are welcome. Thanks, ~spot (Log in to post comments)
Fedora considering a new privacy policy Posted Jul 17, 2008 20:48 UTC (Thu) by i3839 (subscriber, #31386) [Link] > Fedora reserves the right to change this policy from time to time. If we > do make changes, the revised Privacy Statement will be posted on this > site. A notice will be posted on our homepage for 30 days whenever this > privacy statement is changed in a material way. It's that this is Fedora, but if it was someone else this would be quite disturbing. That's it allowed at all to change such things behind people's back is a bit scary. Perhaps say that if the policy changes substantially users get notified beforehand?
Fedora considering a new privacy policy Posted Jul 18, 2008 16:54 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] Any method is unlikely to reach all the users but posting in the website is a easy and public one. Do you have suggestions on doing it better?
Fedora considering a new privacy policy Posted Jul 19, 2008 16:42 UTC (Sat) by i3839 (subscriber, #31386) [Link] If you have their email, just send an email before changing the policy, in addition to putting it on the website. All this isn't important for minor changes, but it is if anything major happens (like "we're going to sell your info to spammers/advertisers"). As said, it's that this is Fedora, so it's more a matter of giving the right example, but if it was e.g. a webshop it would be more important.
Fedora considering a new privacy policy Posted Jul 20, 2008 12:05 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] Fedora doesn't have email addresses of anything but a tiny tiny portion of it's users and they have their own right to privacy for not getting unsolicited email. Yes, you should be careful about changes to privacy policies and if you read the privacy policy of many websites, their policy does leave room for them to change it with some minor or no form of notification.
Fedora considering a new privacy policy Posted Jul 21, 2008 9:08 UTC (Mon) by i3839 (subscriber, #31386) [Link] To create a Fedora account you need to provide your name and email address. People who didn't do that won't care much about your privacy policy because you don't know anything about them. Getting an email for any small change to the policy would be annoying indeed, so make a distinction between changes that change the spirit of the policy and those that don't. For example Livejournal says: > If there is ever a change to how LiveJournal uses or intends to use > personal information, we will post that change to this policy and, > if the new policy is materially less restrictive than this policy, > we will seek your consent. The webshop I checked says it won't share any info with anyone at all, except to get stuff delivered.
Fedora considering a new privacy policy Posted Jul 21, 2008 2:36 UTC (Mon) by ricky (subscriber, #45937) [Link] When this moves further forward, an email will probably be sent to fedora-announce-list, which should be a reasonable way to get to Fedora users/developers.
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