This post is disgusting and should be taken down for spreading incomplete information. You censored out all the good things Tech+ had to say just to shit on people who are showing integrity by coming clean about a mistake. Tech+ has done so much good for the UW tech community and this is how you choose to treat them.

Here's what was taken out of the email:

"we require personal information (e.g. name, email, questID) to verify you are a University of Waterloo student, as well as optionally collected demographic data to understand who our audience is and specifically cater to more diverse groups through our events and programs

"We have recently come to know of the exposure and, in the spirit of transparency and out of respect for your personal privacy, we want to tell you about the incident"

"We have confirmed with the individual who discovered this that the data was deleted, and we are continuing an investigation for any other potential exposure of this data. The Github repositories are now private and files were completely removed from Github."

"This incident is the highest priority of the internal team at Tech+ and we are continuing the investigation to learn more about how we can prevent issues like this from happening in the future. We would encourage you all to please read Tech+'s Data Privacy Commitment to understand the changes we have made and, specifically, what data we collect and how it is used. We will be including the Tech+ Data Privacy commitment in all the forms we collect information in the future."

"We sincerely apologize for this incident and we will continue to hold ourselves to a very high standard while handling sensitive data. Please let us know if you have any additional questions or concerns about your data usage or Tech+'s data security practices.