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Research and write a privacy policy/opt-in document

Open arokem opened this issue 10 years ago • 7 comments

Possible avenues to look:

  • https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/
  • http://telemetry.mozilla.org/

arokem avatar Jul 11 '15 22:07 arokem

What would we be asking from (end) users ?

arokem avatar Jul 11 '15 23:07 arokem

@jackiekazil

arokem avatar Jul 11 '15 23:07 arokem

@scopatz

arokem avatar Jul 11 '15 23:07 arokem

@scopatz wrote a draft of this on the sprint etherpad, which I guess should get moved somewhere else.

njsmith avatar Jul 15 '15 04:07 njsmith

Do you think we need an end-user info document between the one-sentence question and the privacy policy? I was assuming the privacy policy was going to be fairly legalistic, but so far that looks quite readable.

takluyver avatar Jul 15 '15 17:07 takluyver

Documents don't need to be legal jargon to be legally binding. Besides, what we are trying to do here is fairly simple, so it doesn't need a lot of fancy language. I'll open a PR. I am assuming that we don't have NF standing yet....

scopatz avatar Jul 15 '15 22:07 scopatz

We'll probably need to get a lawyer to look it over to be sure, but yeah, that will have to wait until after NF agrees to take this on (assuming they do!). Writing an email to them about that now, and IIUC their next board meeting is this Mon. . To answer @takluyver's question, I think we'll also want some sort of end-user-friendly document (a FAQ?) that explains the project more generally (what data's being collected, examples of how it will let us do awesome stuff, how the collection works, etc.)?

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Anthony Scopatz [email protected] wrote:

Documents don't need to be legal jargon to be legally binding. Besides, what we are trying to do here is fairly simple, so it doesn't need a lot of fancy language. I'll open a PR. I am assuming that we don't have NF standing yet....

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njsmith avatar Jul 15 '15 22:07 njsmith