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Amanda Gowland
agowland at ripe.net
Fri Jun 2 15:49:25 CEST 2017
Hi Denis, Thanks for your feedback. On 02/06/17 15:32, denis walker wrote: > Hi All > > I am a bit late in getting into this group, but had a few > pointers/concerns sent to me. > > I am not sure what the goals are with trying to measure all these > metrics - gender, sexuality, religion, race, class. What are you going > to do if you find only 1% of attendees are gay? Are you going to offer > incentives to gay people attending to increase it to the population > average? Did you watch the presentation from the plenary session on Friday morning or read the RIPE Labs article? Those might be a good place to start for some background info/context. > > I am also DEEPLY concerned at the rush to get some question(s) on the > registration form for RIPE 75. What you are asking for is the most > sensitive and personal information people can give. With some of the > countries in our region, if this information gets into the wrong hands > it can cost lives. There are serious, serious, serious privacy > concerns here. Agree that it's sensitive info, which is why we want it to be opt-in...and the scope of the questions we'll include is being discussed. > > Amanda said "This data will only be used anonymously for metric > benchmarking." Taken out of context a bit here, Denis. I wasn't making a statement, I was suggesting options on text to include for background information. > Sorry, but before we get to how this data is going to be used: > > -how is it going to be collected > -who is going to collect it > -how and where will it be stored > -who has access to the raw data > -how will the sensitive data be harvested from the personally > identifiable data > -are there Dutch/EU data protection issues with collecting/storing > this data in an identifiable way We have a legal team that will be involved before anything is announced or implemented. This thread is merely to find out the scope of a question we *could* include on the form *if possible* in time for RIPE 75. > > This is not something you announce on a Thursday with a deadline for a > decision on Monday. I hope a lot more thought and care will be applied > to potentially life threatening personal information. Nothing's been announced. I was asking for input to include in our discussion with SWE on Tuesday. > > cheers > denis > > > _______________________________________________ > Diversity mailing list > Diversity at ripe.net > https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/diversity -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/diversity/attachments/20170602/28d45ba9/attachment.html>
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