[OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

[Simon Poole]

"It depends" the critical part (regardless of if it is your real name or
not) is that it can be used as a key to generate a profile a la HDYC and
that can then be associated with the help of  additional sources with a
real person, potentially revealing all kind of things about your life.
But strictly speaking the display name is not necessary for that as the
changeset meta data and likely the edits themselves  probably contain
enough information to generate unique or near unique fingerprints.

That is why I suspect that the consequence of this discussion could be
fairly drastic and result in essentially all meta data being removed
from the planet dumps, including changeset ids and so on.

Simon


Am 05.05.2017 um 18:25 schrieb Yves:
> Actually, can an OSM username be considered as 'personal data'?
> Can somebody point out to a definition of 'personal data' ?
> How would this be different from, say, my github account?
> Yves
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