[Marketing] Privacy policy. was:RE: [Content] RE: Mail Alert! - Wed Feb 25 - 60503

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<quote who='Martin' when='26/02/04 11:17'>

> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Martin wrote:
> 
> 
>>HOwever, I think there's a PR angle here also (which is why I've cc'd this
>>to marketing). tbh, I'm not even sure we *have* a published privacy
>>policy, which if true, is A Bad Thing(tm).

True.

> To be a bit clearer:
> 1) Not having a priv policy is a disaster waiting to happen

True.

> 2) While I think we *should* respect people's wishes to be deleted from
>    the db, I'd be perfectly comfortable if we had an agreed, published
>    policy that said we can't/won't. That way, we can point people to
>    the policy and tell them to stop complaining.

And true.

> I'm not 100% sure who's responsible for stuff like privacy policy, but
> certainly both desdev and marketing have to have a hand in it. I'd also
> guess that content has the best view of how we currently operate.

I'd say it's Marketing that says how it should be presented and/or 
managed, but considering how the DB is done right now (from what I 
understood from Jeff), for the moment it would be good to say that 
accounts can't be deleted.

> Content ppl, do you want to draft a best guess as where we are now? Then I
> think Marketing can review based on avoiding the kind of own-goal that
> Orkut et al have scored, and desdev can review based on how possible it
> is.
> 
> I think steering should co-ordinate from here, though.

Mmmmyeah. I see what you mean. But there's no point for steering IMHO. 
Right now Jeff's said how the database works, content is pretty sure 
that there is no article published on this kind (sez Garrett), so it's 
Marketing's role right now to discuss it, isn't it?

Besides, Marketing's been so silent since I subscribed... it's going to 
be an agitated, without-me-coz-I'm-gone-to-the-countryside, exciting 
weekend... ;)

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