On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 12:56:30PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 06:20:21PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > AFAIK, in Germany, it's the laws that any such "passing on personal > > information" needs to be opt-in - "Opt-out" and "always-on" would be > > unlawful. > > I'd seriously recommend to pass this proposal on to a EU > > data-privacy law expert. > > I'll pass on this concern, but generally I trust Fedora Legal to take > these things into account. Echoing the concerns of Ralf, I would also be more confortable if it was reviewed by more people. While I trust Fedora Legal to do their best, I think there is also cultural differences that would bias everything. There is a lot of cultural, linguistic and political differences across the 12^W 15^W 28 countries of EU. And since laws discussed at the EU level need then to be customised for local application (ie, at the nation level), this may result in slightly or less slightly different laws each time in each country. Of course, for more fun, laws are redacted in the local language, which is not english for a vast majority of nations. And we are only for now just speaking of EU, not even touching Latin America (as it seems that Argentina or Mexico among others did adopt the same legal framework than the EU, with likely adaptation), Africa, or Asia Pacific. So I would propose to complement the review of Fedora Legal, who would likely did a perfect job for US laws, with people who would be a bit more specialist on the topic outside of the US. I do not have any idea, except maybe people for the EFF, even if that's mostly US based, they could give pointers maybe ? -- Michael Scherer _______________________________________________ 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.
