Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: clarify rules wrt tagging other people

From: Thorsten Leemhuis
Date: Sat Nov 16 2024 - 06:51:38 EST


On 16.11.24 12:38, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 10:39 AM Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The latter is not a theoretical issue, as one maintainer mentioned that
>> his employer received a EU GDPR (general data protection regulation)
>> complaint after exposing a email address used in bugzilla through a tag
>> in a patch description.
>
> And once it's upstream there is not much we can do about that anymore,
> right?

Well, right. :-D I thought that was obvious, so I did not mentioned it
in the patch description. I considered mentioning it in the added text,
but in the end decided against it, as once an email address is exposed
in a patch posting it's kind of too late anyway, as it then ended up in
external archives we have no control over.

Ciao, Thorsten