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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 19:30 +0000, Russell King wrote: > > and read through the (flash) bits. Now consider "are email addresses > > information which can be used to identify individuals?" The answer is > > "yes". Are we storing that in a kind of database? Yes. Therefore, > > does this fall under the terms of the Data Protection Act? Yes. > > You already have my email address in your copy of the BK tree. You > achieve nothing by simply not adding _more_ valid email addresses. > > I think civil disobedience in this case is appropriate. Why would it? I see legal ways to provide such information - and after all, we want the authors' names rather than their addresses in the frist place, at least in "shortlog". -- Matthias Andree Encrypt your mail: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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