Just wanted to say, I'm not out to cause trouble for these good folks at aawa. They are just not forthcoming about data handling and privacy. This is a big mistake right out of the gate. They raised a red flag when they blew me off about their volunteer form, and there's not any official privacy policy that I can find on the site. So I did a generic analysis on their urls.
As you may already know, there are many free tools on the web to use if you have unaddressed secuity concerns, just google to get a list. Some are better than others, none are completely definitive, but you will get some decent information. Of course, only a site audit by the webmaster or someone else can uncover the less obvious security issues. Mind you, I just checked aawa and jwsurvey, not all the other sites they link to or interact with or share web space with, if any. I don't have the time and that's not my job. That's one reason why an upfront privacy/security policy is so import when your asking for and collecting data as some have said here. Why make it easy for a hacker or malware to get some of the pieces to an identity puzzle? It's not that big a deal to host a secure form page. At the very least it builds trust in your brand. Even if it's public information and not credit cards or ss#'s or the like, it's still part of your overall personal identifiers package and should not be treated lightly IMO.
If the folks at aawa remained a loose collective of idependent site operators fighters for the cause, doing their own thing the best they can, OK. But when you form a legal entity with all its implications and liabilities and invite others to provide resources (time, donations, etc) in pursiut of your corporate mission - then you raise the bar. And I feel because they raised the bar that others have the right to hold them to a higher standard. I hope they meet that standard some day. But its going to take real humility, cooporation and openness, more of what I'm not seeing, and for that matter less than what I am seeing.
Not that I was concerned, but just out of curiosity I ran JWN through several tools and it came up clean all around. Kudos to the JWN webmaster for all your hard work and due diligence.
Appreciation for this forum and all those here who contribute. Thanks for listening.