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Investigate Dashboard GDPR compatability
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The Dashboard is used at events and for some courses. We should investigate if it complies with any GDPR requirements we might have. Note that users sign up to the Dashboard using their Wikimedia credentials.

Additionally on a Wikipedia camp leader meetup in December, we talked about Dashboard, and a couple of privacy arguments were brought up against it. Since we sometimes use Dashboard at events, it might be something we want to look into (unless we have already).

Examples that were brought up

From the page Private information
"For logged in users: OAuth credentials that allow partial access to to your Wikimedia account, including making edits on your behalf"

From the page Cloud Services Terms of use
"information shared with the Cloud Services Project, including usernames and passwords, will be made available to volunteer administrators and may not be treated confidentially."

Related Objects

Event Timeline

I've asked whether the dashboard is "a Wikimedia site" and as such subject to the WMF privacy policy.

Jopparn edited projects, added WMSE (IT); removed WMSE.

I sent an e-mail to Wiki Education to check if they consider this a service falling under https://wikiedu.org/privacy-policy/

Aklapper renamed this task from Investiage Dashboard GDPR compatability to Investigate Dashboard GDPR compatability.Feb 28 2020, 1:59 PM

@Lokal_Profil This is a related task (I didn't find this one when I created that one): T241721

I sent an e-mail to Wiki Education to check if they consider this a service falling under https://wikiedu.org/privacy-policy/

Got a reply

For Programs & Events Dashboard, it's governed by the privacy rules of the Wikimedia Cloud Services terms of use: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Cloud_Services_Terms_of_use
Although it's not explicitly called a "privacy policy", it covers in detail what P&E Dashboard admins can and cannot do with the (limited, as described in the Private Information page) amount of private information the Dashboard collects.
The Wiki Education privacy policy is much more permissive; P&E Dashboard is only covered by the more restrictive Wikimedia Cloud Services policy.

From the page Cloud Services Terms of use
"information shared with the Cloud Services Project, including usernames and passwords, will be made available to volunteer administrators and may not be treated confidentially."

This refers to accounts created in a Cloud Services Project, note the Wikimedia project which you use to log in with. Since the dashboard relies on OAuth to create the accounts no password information should be accessible to admins there.

From the page Private information
"For logged in users: OAuth credentials that allow partial access to to your Wikimedia account, including making edits on your behalf"

I pinged a question to WikiEdu about when these permissions are needed.