[Osmf-talk] OSMF Transparency report

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 12/05/2016 10:36 AM, Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski wrote:
> Were there government/official requests to disclose personal data of
> OpenStreetMap users?

The board has not received any such requests in my time on the board.

There is no policy to disclose such requests but there's no policy not
to disclose them either ;)

> Were there takedown requests for data?

We receive quite a few "takedown requests" but they are almost never
justified. Often people believe that they have a "copyright" in the
geometry of their driveway or things like that, or a park operator wants
us to remove footpaths that are "not official" and things like that.
These requests are not handled by the OSMF board but either LWG or DWG,
and we usually try to explain the project to people in a friendly way
and sometimes even remove something that we wouldn't legally be required to.

Where we find that copyrighted data has indeed been added to OSM, we
remove it of course, and usually also redact the history.

There is no policy of disclosing that actively but these issues are not
secret either. The existence of redactions is visible through the web site:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/redactions

You cannot see directly from there which objects were affected, but if
you request an object history and the object has redacted versions, you
will be told which redaction id was the cause.

Bye
Frederik

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