Summary
Guide staff through an activity to have them list private data within the organization (e.g.
Using the "personal information to keep private" handout. 66 )
Overview
Materials Needed
Considerations
Walkthrough
Personal Information To Keep Private
Information that can be used to identify individuals, organizations, and even communities
of practice should be treated with the utmost care. Some data, like names, phone
numbers, and addresses are obvious, while others, like computer names, the MAC
addresses of wifi cards, or pseudonymous social media accounts may be less obvious.
Also, combinations of information - location, data, and type of activity, or even an issue
area of interest and a city name may specify a very small number of activists or
organizations.
This spreadsheet, part of the Responsible Data Forum documentation sprint provides a
useful baseline of types of data and ways to manage or obfsucate it usefully: Data
Anonymization Checklist
Recommendation
For the internal audit report back to the organization, much of the information will
require specific identification of user devices (and by extension, their users), as well as
very sensitive organizational data. None of this data, by intention, accident, or adversarial
action, should be shared with third parties.
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