Important Alert about Demographic Information in Confirmation Messages

The DrupalCon Minneapolis registration system was configured to include all information provided by the registrant in the confirmation message to both the billing and registrant contact in the system.

This means that if the registrant entered a different email address as the billing contact (such as an accounting office) that contact would receive the full registration details, including demographic information.

Our intention in collecting this information is to gain insight to our DrupalCon attendance base and implement policies and strategies to bolster the inclusivity of the event; however, this resulted in the unintended disclosure of that information to the billing contact.

We have removed all registration fields from the confirmation messages, effective immediately, until the registration system can be updated to exclude the demographic information from the confirmation messages.

While we have not yet heard that any community members were negatively impacted by this disclosure, we deeply and sincerely apologize for introducing this risk.

We recognize and thank the effort and emotional labor of the Drupal Diversity & Inclusion group in helping us resolve this issue.