Re: Privacy policy

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On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:00:27PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:22:00PM +0100, Tristan Santore wrote:
> > >>The last sentence. I think it would be better to say:
> > >>...to use their contents for purpose of fixing bugs.
> > >>Or something similar. Now it seems that once you submit personal data,
> > >>Fedora may use them to <insert evil purpose here>.
> > >>Promise to not abuse the data would also work for me.
> > >This makes sense to me. I'll add.
> > I hate to be pessimistic. Legally a promise to not use something for
> > an "evil" purpose is meaningless. Unless you specify what exactly
> > you will prevent/protect against, outside the scope of your local
> > data protection laws.
> 
> Yeah, I think we're familiar with that from the (banned in Fedora)
> "don't be evil" clauses in licenses. But I think Paul was saying he'd
> add the more specific thing — what we _will_ use it for: fixing bugs.

That's correct.  The policy should state outright what the contents
are to be used for.

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