I've updated the document https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Updated_Privacy_Policy#Log_files_and_Information_submitted_to_OSMF_Services
with some additional text to address the handful of things people felt were missing. If there are no further comments I would suggest using this as a replacement till such a time that we have a completely redone policy. Simon Am 16.06.2015 um 13:17 schrieb Simon Poole: > > And now for something completely different. > > I've produced an updated version of the OSM privacy policy: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Updated_Privacy_Policy (the original > resides here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy). > > This is largely a private undertaking, it however has been available to > stakeholders in the original document and the relevant OSMF working > groups for comments and suggestions which have been worked in to the text. > > The LWG has somewhere on its to-do list an item on a complete review and > rewrite of the privacy policy, this is not a replacement for that. It is > however likely that whoever does that rewrite would refer to this > document or the original privacy policy for the OSM related specifics. > > Neither the original policy nor this document are published and/or > approved OSMF documents, but they should likely be considered for that, > at least until a full rewrite is completed. > > My motivation was mainly that there are some things that should be in > the document that are not, and the complications that a complete rewrite > as in for example https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy > will entail. > > All that said, the changes are, with one exception, likely > uncontroversial and simply document what is current practice. Obvious > and clear for old hands, probably not so for newcomers. > > The exception is the addition of a clause that allows us (the OSM > community) to use information submitted to an OSMF run services to be > used to support improving the OSM data. Right now the only use of this > that I could think of is to mine nominatim queries for missing > addresses, postcodes and the like. The is currently NOT done, because it > is a potential touchy issue, but it would have some obvious benefits. > > Comments on the draft are likely best added to the discussion page. > Please keep the scope of any comments limited to the changes and not to > untouched original text, one day there will be a complete rewrite and > that will be the time to address any other issues. > > Simon > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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