Re: Future Handling of Blue Sheets

[Randy Bush <[e-mail]>]

Tobias Gondrom <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Russ,
> 
> thank you for the information.
> In this case, my preference would be not to publish the blue sheets with 
> the proceedings.
> 
> Reasoning:
> The blue sheet data can at some point be used to determine movement 
> profiles of individual attendees at the meeting to a finer granularity 
> than today and therefore can be an issue for privacy (even though I 
> recognize that this is a public meeting). The fact that we "may reduce" 
> the amount of subpoenas is a viable reason, still personal data should 
> be handled as conservative as possible. Without a significant and 
> measurable economic advantage by the publication, we should rather not 
> publish this data with the proceedings.
> (My underlying assumption is of course that currently our cost of 
> subpoenas is not forbiddingly high compared to overall conference costs. 
> If that assumption proves to be false, I would have to rethink my 
> statement above.)
> 
> Besides that:
> - am agnostic on whether we ask for email address or not (in the end I 
> gave up on hiding my email address as a way to reduce spam...)
> - even without publication, we could still scan the blue sheets and 
> maintain them in an electronic archive without keeping the hard copies 
> (please note there may be legal requirements on procedures of handling 
> non-paper copies that are later to be used in a court of law).
> - And if we would go to a Hiroshima/RFID model, the discovery in 
> subpoenas could be much easier compared to scanned paper documents with 
> handwritten names.
> 
> Just my 5cents.
> 
> Tobias

fwiw, i am with tobias all the way up to, but not including, the rfid.
i find it interesting that he does not like the publication of fine
grained personal location data by blue sheet, but does not mind a likely
much finer grained electronic one.

i see ourselves some years from now having electronic tracking of
whether X was in the room during which parts of the discussion.  do not
like.

randy