[ckan-dev] Privacy of user activity in CKAN 2.0

Thu May 30 10:21:44 UTC 2013

On 30 May 2013 10:51, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:

> > My assumption as a naive user is that every edit goes in the activity
> > stream, but that I am only ever shown activity relating to datasets
> > I'm authorised to see (either because they're public, or because I'm
> > in the relevant Organization). If a dataset is made public then so is
> > its history. After all the history is really just more metadata.
>
> Right. IIRC, we wanted to have private activities for private datasets
> as you describe, but we didn't have time to do that change (at the "last
> second" before releasing 2.0, this was in January iirc! :) so we just
> made a simpler change instead: no activities from private datasets.
>
> If and when we do have private activities for private datasets, then I'm
> not sure about the question of what happens to private activities when
> their dataset becomes public. Do the activities become public as well as
> you say? Or do the activities remain private (but any further activities
> that happen while the dataset is public are public)?
>
> I think the more conservative option of private activities always remain
> private, is maybe safer.
>

This seems like the right approach to me.

>
> The same question comes up when a public dataset becomes private: do the
> dataset's public activities now become private and disappear from
> activity streams? Or do public activities always remain public?
>
>
I think that all activities should be made private if the dataset is made
private.
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