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Stack Exchange Privacy Policy Revision history
On https://stackexchange.com/legal/privacy-policy, there is mention that "If we change this policy, we’ll update this document to keep you in the loop".. Great!
However, I have never liked ...
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How does this processing meet the company's legitimate interests?
To quote Bella_Blue's 2024-06-17 answer:
The objection to legitimate interests selection does not apply to “Necessary cookies only” due to the ‘strictly necessary’ exemption. When the “Necessary ...
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Use a privacy-friendly reCaptcha alternative
I'm very concerned with Google tracking my online activity. According to this article, Google's reCaptcha v3 poses significant privacy concerns, including:
sending "hardware and software information, ...
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Stack Exchange should review and document their data retention policies
Recently, Stack Overflow posted a blog post about their Providence system (see also a 2015 blog post by Kevin Montrose about this same subject). This is related to the Personalized Prediction Data.
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Why do mods have unrestricted access to users' followed posts but not saved posts and other private data?
I recently learned that moderators have unrestricted access to users’ followed posts simply by viewing their profiles. It's worrying and seems odd, especially considering that saved posts and voting ...
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Solution for semi-anonymous posts / accounts
I'd like to discuss private / anonymous posts or accounts.
I know, these posts are public, and linked to you in some way or another. Ok, "semi-anonymous", are you happy now?
No, this simply ...
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Should we be informed that non-SE employees have access to profile info?
I came across this question in which a moderator noted that a user had a "same IP diff email". I was under the impression that our e-mail was only visible to us or used for the purposes ...
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Is embedding arbitrary external images GDPR compliant?
Currently, SE allows user to embed arbitrary images (from HTTPS sources) into posts and into comments in chat. The consequence of this is that whoever controls the server those images are hosted on ...
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Privacy Management/Account Disassociation
It seems that now the "Clear All Associations" button has been removed and there is no way to disassociate one account from another at all short of creating an entirely new OpenID (and thus having to ...
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Stack Overflow login (or other OpenID sites) - without accepting cookies from not visited 3rd party sites?
The login to Stack Exchange sites on Firefox only possible if you allow cookies from "not visited 3rd party sites".
That's not so nice I think, because normally you won't ever accept cookies from ...
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Why can't we see what others have voted to close?
When I go to the votes tab on my profile, I can see what I have voted to close.
When I go to someone else's profile, I can't see the votes tab, meaning I can't see what they voted to close.
What's ...
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