S97 Grooming!

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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

TO DO