[ncc-services-wg] Re: Re: personal data in the NCC

On 21 Oct 2010, at 14:28, Daniel Roesen wrote:

>> If you don't like the current policy, you are welcome to suggest  
>> changes.
>
> The policy does not require personal ID copies kept by the NCC.

OK, so you want to pick nits. If you don't like the *implementation*  
of the current policy, you are welcome to suggest changes. Or propose  
a policy that forbids the NCC to store copies of passports and similar  
documents.

Rather than whine or explore rat-holes, please come forward with some  
constructive proposals.

> I'm not sure we're able to do something about it via the policy  
> process
> if NCC's lawyers say "ask for and keep a copy of IDs" to "be safe".

Now you're making assumptions and possibly jumping to wrong  
conclusions. First, it's *your* NCC and it exists to serve its  
members. If it's not doing so, you absolutely can and should do  
something about that. The policy machinery and the organisation's bye- 
laws are the tools for those changes: changing/making policies, voting  
for the board, calling a General Meeting, etc.

I don't know why the NCC is copying passports. It will be for a good  
reason. [Well, it had better be for a good reason...] Perhaps if this  
was further explained, we would all have a better understanding of the  
issue and what options are feasible for making changes?

> Did you ever have to provide passport copy to online shops where you  
> buy
> goods?

No. I don't go shopping. And I generally don't buy stuff on-line. The  
web is full of marketing scumbags who think they are entitled to send  
me spam if I'm stupid enough to buy from them. I refuse to pay the  
entrance fee.