[Imports] Importing names of homeowners : Nepal Red Cross

[Eros, Emily]

I'm in-country now and checked in on this. Seems that the upload came from an NRCS volunteer who received OSM training from another group that we work with here in Kathmandu. Our NRCS GIS staffer is going to call the Khotang focal person to explain the problem and talk through why it's inappropriate to include that sort of information in OSM. She'll also ask them to remove the sensitive information.

I'll be back in Kathmandu in a week or so and can follow-up on this.

Emily


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From: Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com<mailto:pieren3 at gmail.com>>
Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Imports] Importing names of homeowners : Nepal Red Cross
To: imports at openstreetmap.org<mailto:imports at openstreetmap.org>


Anything new about this import and a possible revert ?
"privacy" is not limited to a familly name and/or phone number. Those
data are obvioulsy coming from a census and have not been anonymized
enough by the publishers. It's not a reason to broadcast the mistake
and archive the private data in OSM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census#Privacy

Pieren

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