On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 18:14:50 +0200, Aleksandra Fedorova <alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello, everyone, Please participate in the Annual Fedora Contributor Survey 2021! * https://fedoraproject.limequery.com/2021 The survey is anonymous, it has 44 questions and It is targeting Fedora contributors of all kinds and asks about your default choices of applications and services.
Given that badges are being handed out, it is clear the survey is not anonymous.
People that do surveys love to claim they are anonymous when they aren't, to increase the response. When you are collecting detailed information from someone it is hard to prevent the person from being identified by that data even if you don't collect their identity directly.
If you have people authenticate or send out links to the survey that are customised per person (perhaps to prevent someone from filling out the survey repeatedly) then the survey is clearly not anonymous. Even if you don't do that, web server logs can often reveal who the responders are.
In my opinion it is best to state what you are actually doing with regards to privacy rather than simplify it and make a statement that is clearly false. In this cases you might have said that you were not going to store the identity along side the responses. Even claiming you wouldn't try to find out who the responders were probably wouldn't have been true without caveats. (For example if someone used the survey to make a serious sounding death threat, you very likely would make some attempt to find out who made it.)
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