[OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

[Nicolás Alvarez]

2017-05-04 17:21 GMT-03:00 Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de>:
> On Thursday 04 May 2017, Michał Brzozowski wrote:
>> Maybe this is due to some "moral panic" in Germany revolving around
>> privacy, just like StreetView ban - except it's made clear that your
>> edits are public and you agree to it!
>
> Just to make this clear since there are likely quite a few people
> reading here who will not be able or willing to parse the discussion on
> the German forum - discussion there was about privacy concerns w.r.t.
> editing metadata, which is what is the basis of HDYC.  Mixing this with
> the subject of openness of geodata and privacy concerns reagarding
> geodata (like mappers recording names from the doors of private homes
> etc.) is not really appropriate - two very different matters which need
> to be considered separately.

I don't think Michał was mixing those two different matters. "Your
edits are public" also means the fact that *you* edited *that
particular* piece of data is public, from which someone could infer
eg. where you live; it's not mixing the subject of privacy concerns
with the data itself.

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Nicolás