Privacy in recording settings

[Florian Lausen]

Hello all,

I wonder if there is a possibility to exclude the chat as well as the list of participants from the recording (version 2.4), or not to let it be processed. Otherwise, the recording of classes is not compatible with the principles of European data protection. If this can be argued otherwise, I would appreciate any advice.
Regarding the initial situation: We would like to have the content of an event recorded. If a participant wants to say something, then the recording is stopped and then restarted. In the recording, however, the chat and the list of participants is also visible, which must not be. We need a recording without personal data of the participants.
Is there any place to turn this off, or is there a request to configure this in a future version. Currently the recording function cannot be used in the context of course recording.

Kind regards

Flo

[Juan Lopez]

Hi Florian,

we're having the same "problem" (DSGVO/GDPR). We took a script and customized it to anonymize names in chats. However, our solution is still very buggy.
I've been meaning to test the following solution (https://github.com/danielpetri1/bbb-recording-exporter) but haven't had the time. This Ruby script claims to do exactly what you're (we're) looking for.
I've read this issue and some other similar issues in the github posts, but I don't think there's been anything done to.

I'll bring it up in the next community meeting. You're welcome to join too, if you have time. Meeting starts next Monday at 16 hrs. CET.

If you do test the Ruby script, it would be nice to hear your thoughts.

Regards,

J.

[DistanceLearning.cloud]

Couple of approaches...   

1) raw events.rb  could just use the w_xxxxxxxxx unique internal name when creating the events.xml,  you could follow the different conversations.

then you process the recordings.

2) after the recording is published,  you just have script to sanitize the names in slides_new.xml.   find all the unique names, and replace with user1, user2 etc. 

3) we use daniel's mp4 conversion code in our recording service.    i'll look at that code,  but he just takes the slides_new.xml as input so a simple script for 2) will accomplish the same for both the html5 and mp4 recordings, if you need to offer both recording formats to your end users.

Regards,

Stephen

[Florian Lausen]

Hi, thanks for your reply. 

In my opinion it should be standard to not record personal data. All scrips and manual handlings are so uncertain in terms of maintainability.

Am 21.01.2022 um 13:16 schrieb DistanceLearning.cloud <sd...@distancelearning.cloud>:

Couple of approaches...   

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[Daniel Petri]

Hi Florian,

I've developed the MP4 conversion script Juan mentioned and it provides an option to either hide the chat entirely or to anonymize the chat names while still displaying the contents. You can try it and see whether it fulfills your needs - if not, feel free to open an issue with an enhancement suggestion. I'll attend the community meeting call so that we can talk about it in more detail.

Your suggestion of automatically starting/stopping the recording would probably need to be implemented as an additional recording format.

Kind regards,

Daniel

[Juan Pablo Miranda]

Hi all.
I don't think this option should be standard. Always exists the possibility  of any participant to record his own screen and publish this worldwide.
I agree this could be a configurable option.
Best regards.
JP