[OSM-talk] Maintaining privacy as a casual mapper

[Simon Poole]

Am 03.11.2019 um 23:08 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer:
> ...
> it depends from whom you hide, but generally you should not use a traceable email account if you want to remain anonymous. Using Google would seem like a total no-go (they are even reserving the right to read your emails). Use a live distro like tails (tor browser, spoofs browser a system details, etc. ), do not connect from your home or someone else’s home or any other places that you are related to, do not use a third party login but create a new account for every edit you make and use throw away email addresses for signup. Use generic user names and email addresses created by a random string generator, only use the most common tools like iD and maybe josm, do not use rarely used tags, avoid changeset comments and other free text fields like description and note.

Note, lots of the above would be violations of our ToU, and outside of
that, neither desirable nor a good idea.

IRL editing on OSM is very near to publishing a blog post or similar,
something you are doing in public with the intent  of the results being
public and there are limits to how far you can do this in an anonymous
fashion. If you can't live with the resulting consequences I would
suggest not contributing in any larger fashion.


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