Re: Conference registration leaks YOUR personal information

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

Becky Granger wrote:
> Hello -
>
> Thanks for this message! We've recently been discussing this very issue
> - at one time this feature was considered a positive convenience for our
> conference attendees but now perhaps it's no longer a positive. We will
> be re-evaluating our conference web site applications in 2009, and this
> feature is definitely in the hopper for discussion. Thanks again, and if
> you or others wish to discuss further, please feel free to contact me
> directly.

As this is now a matter of public discussion, I think 2009 is a mite too
late to begin the discussion :-(

I'm not sure if changing my profile settings to be open to logged-in
users only doesn't alter this particular "feature" or if my change in
privacy setting is merely taking a while to propagate in the system, but
I strongly request that at minimum we be given the choice whether to
permit others to register us for conferences or not as a control on this
leak of privileged information. The emergency contact information may
well contain sensitive information or unlisted phone numbers that we
might want protected.

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Regards,
-- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College

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