Sorry I haven't replied sooner - I've just come back from holiday ...

On Friday 26 September 2003 10:43 pm, Benjamin Coles wrote:
> Paul de Vrieze and I are currently collecting data from
> all the developers such as personal info, project info, and other various
> info. 

Which country are you in, and under which country's data protection laws will 
this information fall under?  If you are gathering this information, and you 
are based inside the EU (as I know Paul is), then exporting this data to the 
US (where Gentoo Inc is incorporated) falls under EU law.

The following information I don't have a problem with :)

> What I need from you?
>
> Public Information
> Alias
> First Name/Last name
> Email@gentoo.org
> Date Joined
> Country
> pgp key - optional
> Alt Webpage - Optional, personal, nothing incriminating
> Project/Herd - If you have yet to join one, you can include a description
> 	     - of what you're doing
> Passport type photo: optional - size 140x100
>
> Private restricted to Dev only information
> personal picture - what you would like to have on GWN if you're featured
> 		   430x334 - gives you some warning=) Optional
>

But this information I do :)

> Birthday
> AltEmail
> Private restricted to Management only information
> Snail Mail Address
> Phone
> AltPhone

You need to convince me that you are going to hold this sort of information in 
a secure manner, and that you have the infrastructure in place to administer 
this information for the future.  That includes internal procedures governing 
access to this information.  Naturally, being a UK citizen, I'd prefer you 
meet the standards of data management that our laws require.

Otherwise you can whistle ;-)

Best regards,
Stu
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