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

[James]

As Michal said, forcing login wont stop "those that want to cause harm".
They will just login and harvest the data. They can also just scrape the
osm data, so I dont think this is an issue with  HDYC as much it is a
privacy concern with OSM data itself.

If you dont want to be associated with your edits: create a generic account
that has nothing to do with your usual usernames i.e. AnonymousUser001 or
OSMUser001 and never communicate about the work done on that account with
your main profile/email. That way you dissociate yourself from that user
and your social media accounts.


If people cant find a link between personal identifyable info(facebook,
twitter, email, linkedin) and the editing user there is no cause for alarm.

Worst case they will say: Oh there's an osm user that lives in this
area....so do 35 other users.

Basic internet anonymity 101...

On May 4, 2017 4:51 PM, "Christoph Hormann" <osm at imagico.de> wrote:

> On Thursday 04 May 2017, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > > 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.
>
> Michał made a connection to privacy concerns regarding Google StreetView
> which were exclusively about the recorded data and not about the
> recording metadata (which Google obviously has no interest in
> publishing).
>
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