commit 213ebeadd2867a57ba1c582fb61f421950a69f0a
parent dc96d34101e35cf1300afa465de009467bf341b9
Author: Jonathan <ondesmartenot@riseup.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:04:32 +0800
6.2: disentangle
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diff --git a/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/ethic.tex b/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/ethic.tex
@@ -17,20 +17,23 @@ We briefly discuss two of them here, namely: 1) the risk of criminals using the
\input{threats}
\subsection{Administrative burden}
-The current mechanisms of how tax authorities handle chartiable donations
-also has discriminatory aspects.
-It places a higher bureaucratic cost on spreading an equivalent cumulative amount across smaller philanthropic causes -- denying intersectional interests donors may have, and disadvantaging smaller, early stage and more lean public causes. %XXX: "earlier stage"/"leaner"?
-The latter notably includes ``niche'' causes linked to (combinations of) cultural, sexual, ethnic, religious and social minorities.
-Smaller causes often do not have the capacity to offer support for achieving fiscal compensation to their donors, reprieving their (latent) donor constituencies of the amplifying effects of such compensation and making them less attractive (and thus relatively less likely) to be supported. %XXX: This sentence does not make sense to me. "Reprieve" is not used correctly (I think), and it's too lacking in detail to understand whether it's referring to e.g., membership benefits, or something else. Maybe remove it or explain what "support for achieving fiscal compensation for their donors" means.
+Issuing donation receipts is a significant administrative cost for charities.
+This burden can disproportionately affect smaller organizations
+--- many of whom may work around ``niche'' causes linked to (combinations of) cultural, sexual, ethnic, religious and minority issues ---
+without the
+human resources needed to efficiently and adequately provide donation receipts to donors.
+This reverses the tax incentives for donating and may discourage potential donors from giving, creating a feedback loop that prevents the organizations from raising the necessary funds to grow.
+Even if charities do reliably provide donors with tax receipts (by mail or email), these can easily get lost, and organizations may get a surge of replacement requests from donors before tax filing deadlines, adding to this burden.
-The aim of this project is to simplify donating for all and offer non-discriminatory access to tax benefits and greater protection of privacy, leading to greater tax justice and a philanthropic climate.
-We want to reverse the situation where people prefer not to claim the tax benefit to which they are entitled in order to protect themselves.
+Donau alleviates this problem by integrating the issuance of donation receipts directly into the donation protocol and storing them automatically in the donor's device.
+This could have a disproportionately positive effect on smaller charities, equalizing the administrative burden (with respect to donation processing) across charitable organizations.
+This in turn would potentially lead to greater tax justice and a healthier philanthropic climate.
\section{Open science}
\subsection{Access to software}
The associated software does not place any ethical dilemmas upon the users.
It is delivered as free/libre open source software, available under GNU
-Affero General Public license v3 or later
+Affero General Public license v3 or later
\ifanonymous
and available in a public repository.
\else
