[Noisebridge-discuss] list archives, redaction, search engines, and privacy

[Quinn Norton]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, John Menerick wrote:

> 2. I prefer this option the best.  However, make sure to make a comment such
> as "Modified by XYZ by the request of the NB community as noted here...." or
> something to that affect.

i think it depends, as for the redaction i'm about to request...

> 3. I do not like changing the archives and erasing the past.  It opens
> everything up to question.  :\ "I didn't say that.  Someone must have
> changed it."  Since the uniquely identifiable piece of information was not
> the message itself but a word/phrase, no need to delete the entire message.

i've put my phone number in my .sig, and as i've had problems with that
before, i'd like to go ahead and remove it now. i'm not sure that
something like that needs a comment. if my number is replaced with X's for
instance, any reasonably intelligent person can work out why.

> 4. No.
>
> 5. As long as the public, at large, can view the archives, works for me.
> However, that will not stop someone from going through there and hunting
> down the uniquely personal identifiable piece of information.
>
> How do journalists redact/retract this type of information?

there is no standard.

so anyway, yeah, i've been stalked in the course of my public life, and
after that learned that i wanted to keep my phone number off the web. i
hadn't realized that it was going in a live archive or i would have
deleted it, my bad. is it possible to get it redacted now?

q