[OSM-talk] Maintaining privacy as a casual mapper

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am Mo., 4. Nov. 2019 um 09:32 Uhr schrieb Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch>:

>
> 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.
>


I agree, this was not meant to suggest a general modus operandi for all
your edits, rather making some publicity for
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Intelligence
Just one instance in 3 years tagged with this, and no competing scheme ;-)

Cheers
Martin
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