[ckan-dev] Remove public display of e-mail addresses

Wed Feb 22 06:12:51 UTC 2012

Aargh! I started to write a post about the Datahub's beautiful new
User pages, such as Rufus's here:

http://thedatahub.org/user/rufuspollock

when I noticed that it displays the user's e-mail address! Every
user's e-mail address is currently exposed to the world, without even
logging in (not that that would make it better). Could someone fix
this breach of privacy before I take a screenshot for posterity?

While I guess showing the full name is ok, I think this should be
explicit at signup here:

http://thedatahub.org/user/register

I.e. under the box for 'Full name (optional)' should appear something
like 'Visible on your public profile page.'

This relates to my recent e-mail about being explicit what is done
with e-mail addresses collected there.

Mark

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Mark Wainwright, CKAN Community Co-ordinator
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