On 10 January 2012 17:07, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 04:01:23PM +0000, the hatter wrote: >> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Leo Lapworth wrote: >> >A full dump of live is imported to dev every sunday, when we're running on >> >a dev server >> Except that if this includes personal data, and your customers didn't sign >> up to agree to be test subjects, then it's a breach of data protection >> laws to reuse data gathered for another purpose. A lot of companies do >> this (either a full copy or some subset to make processing lighter) but >> few have the right words in their statement. > > And even if you *do* have the right words, it's a Bad Idea. You don't > want your tests to accidentally email your customers, for example
or auto-tweet from a random user, that happens to be an investor in the company, that they had just watched a pretty lame film and suggest it to their friends on twitter.. yes really, this actually happened :) A. -- Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Consulting