privacy policy, practices, ethics statement... #2
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first off, congrats on the startup weekend honors! 👍
I'm not privy to what the winning team actually wins, but rumors have it that perhaps a stipend of legal counsel is part of the prize? If so (or even if not) I thought I'd drop in here and raise the suggestion of establishing a policy around privacy...
As these data sets become more accessible, the potential for exposing private or sensitive information goes up. Fact of life. I think the responsibility for scrubbing these data sets of sensitive/identifying attributes is shared among all who help to open and promote access to it.
tl;dr
I was casually perusing public.resource.org's 'uscourts.gov' efforts today (no, don't ask me why)... and reading their statement is what actually prompted me to come in here and make the suggestion:
Obviously, some datasets exist and are designed to identify and locate (sex offender database, county property records, etc), and why I believe it can be a tricky issue to navigate; and thus why getting a bit of legal input on the front end can only be a good thing, right?