Legal talk:Data retention guidelines

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Revision as of 21:49, 9 January 2014 by LuisV (WMF) (talk | contribs) (→‎Gender?: - clarify and close.)
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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)[reply]

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