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

Wed Feb 22 11:08:01 GMT 2012

(Moving to ckan-discuss)
How do people generally feel about their email address being public on
thedatahub.org? See below.

David

On 22 February 2012 10:38, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 22 February 2012 06:12, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> This is intentional and just like github. The email is obfuscated but
> yes it is intentionally public there.
>
>> 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.'
>
> Sure, though I note this is obfuscated.
>
> rufus
>
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