Legal talk:Data retention guidelines

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Gender?

The examples list "email and gender in account settings" as examples of non-public data; however the account settings 'gender' property is publicly disclosed by necessity due to its purpose in producing grammatically correct strings.

Is this meant only to treat the combination of the two as private? Otherwise, we're leaking gender-by-username... --brion (talk) 21:24, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Someone removed it, so ... :D --brion (talk) 21:41, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Michelle did, but her login is apparently still on vacation :) It was removed in response to this remark. —LVilla (WMF) (talk) 21:49, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Section 4 (Definition of personal information)

Information you provide us or information we collect from you that could be used to personally identify you. Reads a bit strange. Maybe a full sentence would be better here? Something like "Personal information means information you provide ..." maybe? --თოგო ^(D) 22:14, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Possibilities in case of breaches

Maybe the policy should contain information about a place where users can go if they feel that the policy was breached. --თოგო ^(D) 22:17, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you თოგო for your comment - this makes sense. What if we added this sentence to the last section of the document (“Ongoing handling…”):

If you think that these guidelines have been breached, or if you have questions or comments about compliance with the guidelines, please contact us at privacy@wikimedia.org.

Would that address your concern? Any suggestions on how to improve it?

Who are "we"?

Does this mean WMF? Or does this mean Wikimedia sites in general? --Rschen7754 23:46, 9 January 2014 (UTC)