maproulette / maproulette/maproulette-backend

privacy policy / retaining user data

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Description

I was just reading Mapzen's privacy policy for their mapping platform. It's interesting, bold, and I like it a lot. We should mimic this for MapRoulette, not keeping any PII, and having a meaningful statement about it.

In MapRoulette 1, we never gave this proper attention.

https://mapzen.com/erasermap/privacy

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Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by reviewing the linked Mapzen privacy policy and investigating how MapRoulette currently retains user data; done means a meaningful privacy statement is documented and the requested PII-retention policy is addressed.

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Assessment

Domain
documentation, security
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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