[Koha-bugs] [Bug 9011] Add the ability to store the last patron to return an item

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=9011

--- Comment #134 from Christopher Brannon <cbrannon at cdalibrary.org> ---
(In reply to Chris Cormack from comment #133)
> (In reply to Christopher Davis from comment #129)
> > Dear Colleagues,
> > 
> > I am new to Bugzilla, so I hope that this comment will not overstep my
> > bounds. In my opinion, this bug is a slippery slope on the mountain of
> > professional ethics. I would rather error on the side of patron privacy and
> > confidentiality than I would on the side of trying to recuperate lost or
> > damaged items. If we say that we anonymize patron data, then we should go
> > all the way without exception.
> > 
> I agree with this, I think we should be aiming to have Koha being the most
> privacy respecting system that exists.  And that we should treat privacy
> issues like we treat security ones. They are the same thing.

It should not be Koha's job to enforce privacy rules.  Rules come and go, and
vary from place to place.  It should be a system preference, not something
forced by the system.  Koha needs to be able to handle multiple scenarios.

Christopher

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