[gdpr-discuss] Git and the Right for Rectification

[Ian Jackson]

Roberto Polli writes ("Re: [gdpr-discuss] Git and the Right for Rectification"):
> About personal data in git:
> 
> 2018-05-24 19:54 GMT+02:00 Ian Jackson <ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
> > gdpr at sheogorath.shivering-isles.com writes ("Re: [gdpr-discuss] Git and the Right for Rectification"):
> >> If someone wants to correct their mail address, just add a .mailmap file.
> >> For details check: https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-check-mailmap
> 
> The actual gitlab clauses include:
> 
> > (For GitLab Contributors Only) ... I [...] agree that my name and email address
> > will become embedded and part of the code, which may be publicly available.
> > I understand the removal of this information would be impermissibly destructive [..]
> > I hereby waive any right to request any erasure, removal, or rectification of this information under
> >  any applicable privacy or other law [..].
> 
> Could those clauses suffice?

I'm not a laywer, but maybe.

I do think that we should improve mailmap along the lines I suggested
in my previous message.

Legally: "processing" someone's deadname, by putting it in plain view
in the HEAD's mailmap file, is not *necessary* for the integrity of
the repository.  Obfuscating it is easy.  So I don't think it is
justified, ethically or legally.

Ian.

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