Disable mail lookup function for team admins

[Saenger]

Since it was only recently implemented, next to no user gave the explicit permission to let his email address be known by anyone else but the team founder.

The new team admins have no legal rights to see this personal data without explicit consent by the users.

Until explicit approval is given by the users the email address must not be shared with anyone else.

[Ageless]

Reassigning to David.

[Nicolas]

Maybe the email-showing feature should be removed since we have PMs now.

[Nicolas]

Replying to Ageless:

Reassigning to David.

Should I change the default "assigned to" for web components to davea?

[Ageless]

Replying to Nicolas:

Replying to Ageless:

Reassigning to David.

Should I change the default "assigned to" for web components to davea?

Yes please, Rytis is currently unavailable.

[John37309]

If you disable the ability for a team leader to contact his team, you may aswell get rid of teams from BOINC altogether.

I have just added a similar comment here; http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/479

Nobody is complaining about spam email from teams or privacy except Saenger in the 20 or so similar messages he has posted on www.boincteams.com

John in Ireland. Admin; www.boincteams.com

[Saenger]

I don't say anything about the team leader, the users have agreed to give him/her access to the address. But nobody else has any rights to this personal data. Team admins were not part of the equation once the users joined the teams.

For new users the message has changed, it no longer says "the founder", i.e. singular, only one person, but "its administrators", plural, more than one person, but everybody who joined before this new rules has only given his email to one single person.

And concerning www.boincteams.com: it's a nice, good site, but irrelevant for this question. There are only a hand ful of team leaders, I don't think it's that well known and definitely not representative of anything but it's small group of participants.

If you look in the official fora, and even in the dubious google group, you'll see that I'm not the only one complaining about the negligence towards privacy issues with BOINC.

And it's a legal question, not one of taste. Giving personal data away without permission is simply illegal.

[davea]

This is a policy issue, not a bug. Please use trac only to report bugs. Use boinc_dev to discuss policy issues.

[Saenger]

This is not a policy issue, it's a bug

It's illegally giving access to unauthorised persons through a programming fault, that's a bug, isn't it?

[Nicolas]

Replying to Saenger:

This is not a policy issue, it's a bug

It's illegally giving access to unauthorised persons through a programming fault, that's a bug, isn't it?

You were already discussing it on the dev mailing list. Go back there. I think David Barnard's comment on boinc_dev says it all.

[Didactylos]

I'm sorry, John - I can't read your site. It makes my eyes hurt. I'll take your word for it that you represent 70 teams out of the thousands that exist.

Saenger, please let Dr. Anderson deal with the issue. Constantly reopening tickets is just annoying - he is aware of the issue, and repetition adds nothing.

[Saenger]

OK. I'll leave it closed, though I don't understand why a severe breach of privacy through wrong coding isn't a bug.

Giving the users access to root through such coding mishaps will as well not considered a bug but a policy issue?

[Saenger]

BTW: It's fixed anyway, thanks for that. [14222]

(shouldn't that mean this ticked isn't invalid but fixed?)