Re: pear web and privacy

On 9 Oct 2002, Stig S. Bakken wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 12:00, Derick Rethans wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I noticed that there is a 'downloads' table in pearweb. Now that is not > > a problem, the problem is in the dl_who and dl_host fields. It is not > > allowed to collect this data in large parts of europe, so IMO we should > > drop these two fields from the table. > > I don't mind dropping dl_who, but how is dl_host different from the > Apache log? There is a important difference between Apache logs and Download statistics, apache logs are to find out abuse in case that happened, while the dl_host and dl_who are used for statistical data on a user. After all, what use do these columns have other then statistics? And for statistics, do you really need to know from which IP address a user comes? I don;t think so... so why store it? > Are you trying to make us write a privacy policy? :-) Well, if we store this data, I think we're obliged to do so. Derick -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ JDI Media Solutions http://www.jdimedia.nl/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------