2012/7/24 <birgitte...@yahoo.com>: > On Jul 24, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Cristian Consonni <kikkocrist...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 2012/7/24 <birgitte...@yahoo.com>: >>> [...] So I definitely believe what it.WM wants to do, to connect people >>> with local events, has real value. And that it has value for the individual >>> people just as much as for it.WM. >> >> strong +1. >> >>> The main question is whether the benefit from being able to connect people >>> with local events is worth the risk of collecting more personalized of >>> their data than we are accustomed to handling. >> >> I could be wrong but I don't think we would "handle more data" than >> what we are doing now. We are not going to use that data and as far as >> I know that data "dies" in the moment the system has output the >> message. > > Maybe this is the area that needs more study. And I am probably the wrong > person to try and even formulate technical questions, but is there a way to > make use of this data without storing it? Without even knowing who recieved > what personalized messages, unless, of course,they choose to respond?
I will forward these questions to wikitech-l. > There is still the "creep" factor, in that readers of the messages will not > necessarily know that it was all handled blindly. However it should > technically preserve the reader's privacy, if no person nor computer can > recall what messages any person was presented with. And if an FAQ is > well-linked, anyone who under the misperception that it was handled > invasively can learn how serious we are about the subject. A FAQ page would be useful, then I think we could decide that, for example: * the geonotice can be centered only on big cities (e.g. "Chef-lieus") * Messages should not make use of the geolocalization information itself, but only static test (i.e. NO "Hey you living in X, there a meetup in Milan" - YES for "There's meetup in Milan") > If such a thing is even possible I suppoose it becomes a sort of > philosophical question. If no one nor computer can know whether or not you > recieved a personally targeted message is the targeting invasive of your > privacy? yes, that's pretty much my point, I think nobody is interested to know if somebody has seen a geotarget message or not, my point is about making people from Milan (north of Italy) know that there is a local meetup without bothering people from Rome (center) or Palermo (south of Italy). (please note that with the current system we were not even able to accurately distinguish betwen macro-regions as north/center/south Italy) Cristian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
