[aprssig] APRS Foundation and Privacy Concerns

[Eric Hansen]

My birthday is the same as everyone else in infosec: 1/1/1970.

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 1:47 PM Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

> Eric Lorenz K9LGE <k9lge at emlorenz.com> writes:
>
> > So I am going to play devils advocate here-
> >
> > My first reaction when I read your email was to the other end- why such
> an
> > overboard reaction on this??? Maybe a couple changes, like...
> > - an explainitory tag, "so we can wish you a happy birthday!"
> > - make it month/ day *only*
> > - make it optional- and add "(optional)" to the field tag.
> >
> > That way, people who don't want to don't have to but those who do want
> to..
> > can.
>
> It's not overboard at all.
>
> In today's world, data, once collected is subject to
>   - data breaches
>   - misuse by a successor entity with lower ethical standards
>   - errors in judgement by succeeding people in the same entity (you'd
>     be surprised how many people think it's ok to load resources from
>     google)
>
> All of this is risk, and thus data is a toxic asset, to be collected and
> retained only really necessary.   It's exactly the right call to decline
> to collect anything more than is needed.
>
> 73 de n1dam
>
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Eric Hansen
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