[OSM-talk] Accountability

[Barnett, Phillip]

Well, I daresay we can deduce, hypothetically,, given sufficient computing resources, that user 80n, say, has interests in Esher, for instance, but given that  there is nothing else visible about user 80n, then I fail to see how that's a problem. (Sorry to pick on you, 80n)

The GPX trails are tied to pseudonyms, not email accounts or actual god forbid real names and addresses.

Phillip

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From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org on behalf of OJW
Sent: Mon 7/24/2006 7:06 PM
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Accountability
 
On Monday 24 July 2006 12:55, Emil wrote:
> Now, OSM accepts _voluntary_ contributions from people. If you are at
> all interested in keeping your movements secret, why on earth are you
> recording them with a GPS and uploading them to an open project??

So how are we going to convince new people to join the project, if they know 
we're storing their movements in a form that can be traced back to them, and 
publishing it without any attempt at anonymising the data?

One of our FAQs is "but won't people be able to see where I live, what school 
my kids go to and the route they take, what time I walk down a certain 
alleyway, what speed I drive down the motorway...?"

In future, I can see myself recommending to such people that they don't upload 
tracklogs at all, but just use their local copy to create roads in JOSM and 
upload the road segments.  If that happens, it will be harder to detect fake 
roads, as there won't be any yellow dots in the area.


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