<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Mo., 4. Nov. 2019 um 12:20 Uhr schrieb Simon Poole <<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch">simon@poole.ch</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use#II._Privacy" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use#II._Privacy</a> requires<br>
you to keep your contact information (which is currently your e-mail<br>
address) current. This is not really new as it was implied by doing away<br>
with anonymous edits in 2007.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>actually only signups as anonymous users were abolished in 2007, who already had such an account could use it for a significant time after that date (IIRR until 2012 license change).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> Further items like my location and a profile description are optional.<br>
><br>
To be clear certain risk reduction measures are completely OK and we<br>
outline these in the privacy policy, what is not OK is anything that<br>
amounts to de facto making the edits anonymous to the OSMF.</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>the only item that must be effectively kept current is the email "contact information" (the other information like username is of your choosing, provided it doesn't insult others / is not unlawful according to the UK law or your local law etc.). This is the term that is used, and it is clear that mappers being reachable/contactable is in the best interest of the project. Still, it doesn't say it must be your personal email address, just that you should be reachable through it, and that it is the "e-mail address associated with your account". It must not necessarily be "your e-mail address".</div><div><br></div><div>FWIW, with so-called "throw-away" e-mail addresses you could still remain contacted, if the people did not actually "throw away" the address but checked it frequently (which of course would make the whole exercise pretty pointless).</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, for good anonymity you should never use the same account for more than one edit, and this would lead to a lot of "contributor signup noise" even if only a small part of our active contributors actually did it. So while it may not be forbidden by the current term, I would not suggest to everybody to act in a way which tries to hide the traces pointing to the author. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers<br></div><div>Martin<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>