Bug#900552: [PATCH-ish] Add privacy policy to the Debian website

Paul Wise <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <CAKTje6G+Q7PEHQU8OkNhoPJxjGC5U4v0tv7udNNqPL-ANhBoAg__11249.5909365409$1527900915$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Jonathan McDowell wrote:

> We need a privacy policy on our website, describing the personal data we
> hold for people and what we do with it. This has become pressing due to
> the EU GDPR, but is something we generally should have anyway. I've
> attached a start (in wml, which I hope is helpful, though it's basically
> HTML and I originally wrote it in Markdown).

This is a good start indeed.

Some things that might be improved:

Addition of retention information, especially for DebConf.

lists.d.o should mention that third-parties also publicly archive.

> One thing I couldn't figure out is /where/ this should live. It should
> definitely be linked from our front page. I thought under /legal/ might
> be a good place, but nothing else there is linked from the front page
> that I can see. I leave it to the wisdom of the web team to work out
> where might be best.

I would suggest it be linked from both the front page and the footer.

Ubuntu have it under /legal/ too:

https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/dataprivacy
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