On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 03:00:26PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 15:44:47 -0400, > "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >I believe there was an instance in the distant past where an > >open-source friendly sociological researcher used aggregated community > >data to produce a report. IIRC she had access to PII in order to > >aggregate and compile the data, but the output report (being > >aggregated) could not be used to identify anyone. This would be > >similar to the "State of Fedora" case that Máirín raised. > > That is a dangerous claim to make. Aggregated data is not as safe from > analysis as many people assume. OK, fair enough, but the argument isn't based on difficulty. Third parties must pass the reasonable gate of approval by community leadership groups and people before getting said access. And that grant would be based in part on the intended output. This clause of the Privacy Policy hasn't changed, and still doesn't grant blanket or unfettered access to any third party. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/council-discuss The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
