[Civsoc-mw] updates on CivSoc-Mw mailing list

[trevor chimimba]

Dr. Nyirenda, 

My concern does not relate to the updating, it is to its publication without the subscribers consent. The latter raises privacy concerns that should not be overlooked in future updates. 

> On Oct 9, 2018, at 4:13 AM, Dr P Nyirenda <paulos at sdnp.org.mw> wrote:
> 
>> On 8 Oct 2018 at 7:36, trevor chimimba wrote:
>> 
>> Those of us who consider ourselves to privacy advocates are a bit concerned that a decision was
>> made to make known the subscribers list without asking the subscribers whether this is a right
>> course of action to take.
> 
> Thank you for the comment, however, this is exactly why we thought of making this update,
> to see if anyone has any objections to such updates.
> 
> With the advent of GDPR such updates have become common and various communities are
> reacting in different ways.
> 
> Part of the reason for making this update was to assist to subscribe new list members by
> recommendation from exisiting ones. We will also be switching on notifications to give new
> subscribers a chance to accept or reject the invitations just as we send notifications once
> every month for exisiting subscribers to do the same.
> 
> Can I then take it that you have a strong objection to making such updates ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paulos
> ======================
> Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
> NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
> http://www.registrar.mw
> 
>  
>> 
>> On Oct 8, 2018, at 3:28 AM, Dr P Nyirenda <paulos at sdnp.org.mw> wrote:
>> 
>>    Dear CivSoc-Mw Contact,
>> 
>>    This is a notification of updates to the CivSoc-Mw mailing list.
>> 
>>    Here below is the full list of CivSoc-Mw subscribers. We are making the list available with
>>    the hope that it could assist you to contact your peers in offline or online situations as well
>>    as let you know who is listening when you make your posts.
>> 
>>    We would like to invite you to recommend and send us the e-mail address of any other
>>    potential subscribers who have the potential to make contributions or benefit from listening
>>    to CivSoc-Mw mailing list.
>> 
>>    We would also like to know if you have any objections to us making updates like this
>>    regularly such as once a month on this mailing list.
>> 
>>    Best regards,
>> 
>>     
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