[OSM-talk] Potlatch and the destruction of good work (N6 Ireland)

[Tom Hughes]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708091443430.20719 at einer.uio.no>
        Håkon Enger <hakon.enger at fys.uio.no> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Tom Hughes wrote:
>
>> The problem is that it's very hard to know what we can do as there
>> is no clear policy posted when people sign up....
>
> Well, I have no knowledge of UK data protection laws, but I would
> suppose that they only cover personal information, such as name and
> E-mail address. So a uid given to the user by OSM would not be covered
> by this law, and we can do whatever we want with it. Or is this an
> incorrect interpretation?

It has to be personally identifiable information, so it rather depends
on what people have entered as their display name - there are certainly
some people that have used their email address, which can certainly
count as personally identifiable information in at least some cases.

Tom

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