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Agenda
User account modification and deletion
Our data policy states that the user should control their own data. The lack of ability of a user to delete their own data / account goes against this policy (at the very least to get their data deleted within 24 hours upon request; ultimately to control this on their own)
Upon request is enough for compliance
How common are these requests and how much time does it take for the team to do it manually?
Industry standard might be to intentionally create a little bit of friction here (David: but is this a standard that we are aiming for?)
What about farm deletion (rather than account deletion)? Testing farms are made all the time and actually pollute our data analysis
Should not be restricted
Cleaning up test farms (even from our end) to prevent data dilution is a different situation and maybe the purview of the data team
Also a needed feature for correcting having set the wrong location for your farm
Farms are technically easier to soft-delete (not an option with users)
As long as we cannot trace the data back to the user that should be enough for our data policy
The strictest data policy only requires anonymization
Is farm address always personally identifiable? Yes. But latitude and longitude are okay
What should the process be for now?
We should follow what’s in the data policy right now (but this is hard-delete)
Our precedent has been soft-delete and ignoring the farm for the purposes of data
Hard-delete without a user-initiated flow with warning modal also makes it easier to get into a situation of not being able to undo
Changing user email
How are we verifying the validity of this request
This particular request is a bit edge-casey (request was not user-initiated at all, but is still very likely completely valid)
Action items Larisse Cavalcante and David Trapp , two tickets about:
How do we handle deleting information (farm, account)
How do we handle changing personal information (e.g. email id AND farm location)
Divya Chayanam to investigate wording of data policy
Issues with setting farm location – the original location cannot be changed, but is crucial for data analysis purposes (e.g. to calculate relationship between biodiversity and distance to urban centre)
These incorrect farm locations may still be associated with correct field/map locations
Action items: Larisse Cavalcante to communicate to Prof Khanh
Short whole-team discussion of animal sprint estimations
Discussion points
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