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general person model that doesn't dig too deep into privacy
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: As for what I think is that this is way overkill for our purposes. [[Gender]], [[Birthyear]], [[Nationality]], [[Employer]], [[Profession]] and perhaps some contact info should be quite adequate for [[employee]]s, [[campaigner]]s and [[commentator]]s. [[w:Anonymous Coward|Anonymous Coward]]s can of course be dismissed as nobodys more easily then someone who has [[w:GnuPG|GnuPG]] or commercially signed identities. [[Consumer]]s naturally can reveal as little or much about themselves as they wish. --[[User:Juxo|Juxo]] 23:21 Apr 15, 2003 (EEST) | : As for what I think is that this is way overkill for our purposes. [[Gender]], [[Birthyear]], [[Nationality]], [[Employer]], [[Profession]] and perhaps some contact info should be quite adequate for [[employee]]s, [[campaigner]]s and [[commentator]]s. [[w:Anonymous Coward|Anonymous Coward]]s can of course be dismissed as nobodys more easily then someone who has [[w:GnuPG|GnuPG]] or commercially signed identities. [[Consumer]]s naturally can reveal as little or much about themselves as they wish. --[[User:Juxo|Juxo]] 23:21 Apr 15, 2003 (EEST) | ||
::However much or how little you record about a person, it would be useful to make sure that the tag-names don't conflict with more general uses. For instance Nationality can mean Birthplace, it can mean Citizenship, it can mean Ethnicity. So Nationality is a bad tag name. Employer? Some people have many, or none. Profession? Not standard across all countries, better to record degrees and certifications, say as Credential. And all can be multiple. And how to remain Anonymous while still revealing credentials, so called [[Blind Credential]] is very important. | |||
Identifying individual people unambiguously is more controversial, a two-edged sword. Some activists like [http://amnesty.org Amnesty] and [http://greenpeace.org Greenpeace] do it often, for what they consider clear moral purposes. Other projects like [http://wikipedia.org Wikipedia] have less clear purposes and thus less excuse for "outing" or "shaming". This is not an easy issue for consumerium: | Identifying individual people unambiguously is more controversial, a two-edged sword. Some activists like [http://amnesty.org Amnesty] and [http://greenpeace.org Greenpeace] do it often, for what they consider clear moral purposes. Other projects like [http://wikipedia.org Wikipedia] have less clear purposes and thus less excuse for "outing" or "shaming". This is not an easy issue for consumerium: | ||