Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Minutes from the UX/design meeting re P2P collaboration 2023-Jul-11

Many organizations have a strict policy regarding document attribution
such that, for any document communicated to external parties, it shall
have NO personal information contained within it whatsoever. Policies
like that are intended to do two things. First, they reduce the
opportunity for individuals to be found liable in civil cases brought
against the organization. Second, by keeping employee names out of
documents, it is hoped that the scope of discovery efforts will be
reduced during civil cases.

And another reason, is because organizations do not want their
documents attributed to anyone except the organization itself. That is,
publishing of documents/communications shall be entirely anonymous or
shall be attributed to one and only one person. Think CEO, CFO, public
relations office etc.

And another reason, is that the organization wants to protect their
intellectual property by ensuring that no individual within the
organization can be attributed to organization documents or anything
withing those documents. For example, this assists in patent protection
litigation.

For Microsoft 365 documents (word, excel, ppt, visio), a document
inspector allows for the removal of personal information.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/remove-hidden-data-and-personal-information-by-inspecting-documents-presentations-or-workbooks-356b7b5d-77af-44fe-a07f-9aa4d085966f

With more EU countries adopting LibreOffice as their official software,
these legal and compliance type features are going to be percolating
upward more often.

Another important use case, it is very important to be able to remove
personal/change/metadata information prior to exporting to HTML (before
publishing to the Internet).

-- 
Michael A Hawkins
Stamford, CT 06902 USA



On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 13:20 +0200, Felix Queisler wrote:
> @Eyal: Is the scenario based in something other than fantasy? Right
> now it seems more like feature creep to me.
>
> If it can be validated, then it seems to me there could simply be an
> export flag to create a sanitized document. Like you can export
> photos in some software excluding metadata for privacy reasons.
>
> Best,
> Felix
> Am 25. Juli 2024, 18:11 +0200 schrieb Eyal Rozenberg
> <eyalroz1@gmx.com>:
> > 1.
> >
> > Suppose Alice is working on a formal letter which she intends to
> > send to
> > scary company Bob Corporation. Charlie is helping Alice draft her
> > letter, but Charlie has his own history with BobCo, and so does not
> > want
> > his name to be mentioned on the document in any way.
> >
> > Now, Alice can tell Bob: "Don't worry, I'll finalize the letter
> > before
> > sending it so that your name won't appear on it." but Charlie, who
> > is
> > not a techy person and is not experienced with "track changes" and
> > such,
> > is not easy with having to rely on her promise that "it will be
> > ok". He
> > sees his name all over the text: "Charlie wrote:", "Charlie says:"
> > ...
> > and is scared.
> >
> > 2.
> >
> > Similar scenario, but now it's a group of collaborators, and
> > Charlie of
> > them does not trust that everyone will be discreet enough to avoid
> > sharing a link to the document, with the changes still tracked,
> > with others.
> >
> >
> > On 25/07/2024 18:54, Heiko Tietze wrote:
> > > On 25.07.24 1:34 PM, Eyal Rozenberg wrote:
> > > > * Some collaborators will want to avoid a record of their
> > > > collaboration
> > > > to be kept as part of the document...
> > > Sounds like a Schroedinger's argument. I just don't buy this use
> > > case.
> > > The P2P workflow would be the same as of today but synchronously.
> >
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