Forum:Identification

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Hello! With the recent discussion over the addition of an 'ombudsman' and current existing stewards, access to non public data on Orain is slowly becoming a thing which the community us starting to gain access to. With this; We decided it would be a great time to start drafting an identification policy and asking the communities feedback since this will effect either your private data or you if you ever gain access to non public data. The draft below has drafted by Kudu, Joe and I and is fully up to debate. After a week, a final draft will be made and given a Meta: page where any other clarifications can be requested before we make it official. Please use the 'comments' sections to make comments on the section and suggest alternatives. This includes supporting or opposing specific sections as well. John (talk) 01:37, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Users
Users (Orain staff) who will be responsible for dealing with identification purposes (verifying, responding to requests etc.) will be Dusti and John. Additional staff may be added in the future but for now only two will have access.


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Sending
At the moment, email will be the preferred method of sending identification to Orain. Alternatives can be discussed in the future on a case-by-case basis.


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Information to retain
This section is wholly debatable as private and personal information will be stored from what comments are made here. At the moment, we are discussing whether to retain the following information from IDs before destroying them completely; Full legal name - DoB (or simple 'above age of majority') - Country of Citizenship - and possibly form of identification used and where we got this from 'e.g. passport, drivers license etc.'.


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Storing of retained information
At the moment, we are suggesting a simple on-wiki list which lists all users identified to us. This will be on-wiki to allow stewards to easily see who is identified. In addition, this allows other peoples personally retained information to only be accessed when needed as only a username will be on-wiki. The off-wiki storage has yet to be fully decided but it will include a username entry followed by all the private information recorded by either Dusti or John. This will also only be accessible by Dusti or John when adding a new entry (we will focus on the new entry only) or when we have a reason to access someone's information (we will focus on their entry only).


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Releasing retained information
We aim to take this information very seriously as it is intended to be 'private' information especially on an online community. Information will only be access with intention to release when a valid law enforcement order is requesting it (mainly a subpoena) and we have exhausted all other alternatives to avoid releasing the information.


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