[diversity] Options for gender on meeting registration

Hi All
I am a bit late in getting into this group, but had a few pointers/concerns sent to me.
I am not sure what the goals are with trying to measure all these metrics - gender, sexuality, religion, race, class. What are you going to do if you find only 1% of attendees are gay? Are you going to offer incentives to gay people attending to increase it to the population average?
I am also DEEPLY concerned at the rush to get some question(s) on the registration form for RIPE 75. What you are asking for is the most sensitive and personal information people can give. With some of the countries in our region, if this information gets into the wrong hands it can cost lives. There are serious, serious, serious privacy concerns here.
Amanda said "This data will only be used anonymously for metric benchmarking.". Sorry, but before we get to how this data is going to be used:
-how is it going to be collected-who is going to collect it
-how and where will it be stored-who has access to the raw data-how will the sensitive data be harvested from the personally identifiable data-are there Dutch/EU data protection issues with collecting/storing this data in an identifiable way
This is not something you announce on a Thursday with a deadline for a decision on Monday. I hope a lot more thought and care will be applied to potentially life threatening personal information.
cheersdenis
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