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Re:Little League wants all your information by jancsika on Sunday February 28, 2021 @06:35PM (#26298170)
> Age is very important for leveling kids appropriately and keeping them safe, which is why birth certificates are required — parents are insane and go to extreme lengths (I personally encountered forged documents, parents who delayed entry into kindergarten to age 6, bogus documents from siblings or cousins, etc) to try to let older kids play in younger levels.

This being HN, I figure I can make this criticism and be understood even if it breaks the rules here:

Either Little League operates on a human web of trust-- where parents show the documents to a human like you, who then signs-off on the age/residency verification, on up the chain as the Linux Kernel devs work; or, Little League requires a sophisticated digital system for accepting and verifying the documents with lots of personally identifying information in them. If it's the latter, fine-- but then that system is subject to the same scrutiny that Signal, Clubhouse, Experion, and every other digital system out there.

With that in mind, Little League's privacy policy as written is a dangerous pile of horseshit, and your rank speculation that they're probably not leveraging it the way the rest of data miners would isn't helping.

Re:Little League wants all your information by mikeiz404 on Monday March 01, 2021 @03:36AM (#26300717)
So while this is pretty accurate I think the last part could be said more nicely.

I get why you’re upset / impassioned, I am too about this in general, but I believe the person you are replying to was acting in good faith and giving a perspective most of us here do not have.

From a more pragmatic perspective this behavior discourages others, both directly and indirectly, from contributing in the future for fear of saying something wrong or incorrectly. Of course there is a balance.

Re:Little League wants all your information by jancsika on Monday March 01, 2021 @10:54AM (#26303967)
Fair point. Let me try again:

That ToS is dangerous and should be changed ASAP.

If OP knows the inner workings of Little League well enough to claim that the ToS is a case of overly-broad boilerplate, OP can message someone relevant in the org to tell them to change it so it isn't as dangerous.

That doesn't address the broader problem of whether the data really is kept safe. But it at least raises the cost to someone who is considering (or already has considered) mining that data.

I have a difficult time believing that an org with a non-negligible number of participants willing to risk harm to 8 year-olds for the benefit of their 11 year-old would have zero participants willing to leverage an overly-broad ToS for personal gain.

Re:Little League wants all your information by _underfl0w_ on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:28PM (#26298466)
This comment sounds like something Linus Torvalds would say - completely eviscerating but entirely accurate.
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Re:Little League wants all your information by saagarjha on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:49PM (#26298914)
1. Not always he doesn't and 2. I fail to see anything wrong with that comment.
Re:Little League wants all your information by TylerE on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:40PM (#26299485)
It's typical self-righteous tech elitest drivel. What's not wrong with it? About the only thing missing is a reference to how anyone with two braincells uses Brave browser and buys bitcoin.
Re:Little League wants all your information by saagarjha on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:53PM (#26299542)
I fail to see how "people should vouch for new members or be careful with my personal information" is "self-righteous tech elitist drivel".
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Re:Little League wants all your information by saagarjha on Monday March 01, 2021 @01:03AM (#26300135)
On issues of information privacy, I think that most people here are likely to be informed enough to form opinions that they can back with reasoning, as was done here. And the facts are that the policy that Little League has does not have to be in place.
Re:Little League wants all your information by rank0 on Monday March 01, 2021 @12:38AM (#26300044)
So you don’t even disagree with the content just the tone?
Re:Little League wants all your information by ketamine__ on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:47PM (#26299524)
Actually, Brave gets a lot of hate here.
Re:Little League wants all your information by MrsPeaches on Monday March 01, 2021 @04:20AM (#26300971)
And so does bitcoin!
Re:Little League wants all your information by wonnage on Monday March 01, 2021 @02:03AM (#26300341)
HN is unable to conceive of an alternate model to human cooperation, it's the Linux Kernel or the abyss