2017-05-05 6:59 GMT-03:00 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>: > Today, if you are looking for a job and you're being interviewed by a > potential employer, the potential employer could say: "I can see from > OpenStreetMap that you've been editing a lot during the day in your last > job. Did you not have any work to do?" - and the employer would not even > be "wrong". Harvesting the full history file for totally OSM unrelated > information like that is not against any of our rules; it might be > against the law in some countries but certainly not in others. If you > publicly complained about what happened to you, it is very likely that > there will be many people like in this thread who will say "duh, you > idiot why didn't you use a pseudonym, didn't you read what you signed up > for, lah lah lah". > > I would like to come to a point where, if this happened to you in a job > interview, you could afterwards point to an OSM policy and say: Clearly > this company has violated OSM rules, they must have created an account > under false pretenses to get at this data and they're using it for > purposes not sanctioned by OSM. That won't make you get the job, but it > would at least make clear that we stand with our contributors against > abuse of their data.
This scenario is not specific to OSM map edits at all. They could also use mailing list archives to see you have been arguing about OSM tagging conventions during work hours. Or see that you have been editing Wikipedia. Every web forum, mailing list, social network, wiki, etc. that has usernames and timestamps would be "vulnerable" to that. Yet I don't know of any such platform that has rules on how such metadata can be used, and I don't see anyone here arguing that we need rules on the use of mailing list archive metadata. -- Nicolás _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
