"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 > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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