[openstreetmap-website] Sex-aware user icons or text caption? (#1158)

[Simon Poole]

Not impossible, but not without lots of consequences. Even if provided
voluntary it would still increase the amount of sensitive data we store,
and increase the potential problem space massively (just think of trying
to honey trap people by using gender or age or ....).  

Am 20.02.2016 um 12:54 schrieb d1g:
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> @openstreetmap-website <https://github.com/openstreetmap-website> do
> you mean that's impossible to implement feature with *optional*
> (specified by user and never "requested" or "required" by site) radio
> field about "male/female"? Is it only because of legal perspective? If
> yes, could we make alter our too strict policy or create voting on this?
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> See also: "We collect very little personal information about you."
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#Introduction
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