Questions tagged [privacy]
For questions related to user privacy.
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Anonymous questions and Avatars
Some Stack Exchange sites allow to ask an anonymous question by specifying a one-time user name and an email which is "required, but never shown". However the Gravatar attached to the email is shown ...
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Can someone find my Stack Exchange account seeing my Google account?
Because I don't want people in my Google+ circles to find about I have a stack exchange account (which I login with Google). I'm in many Q&A communities of Stack Exchange, since as Math SE, Super ...
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Does Stack Exchange support this responsible web content blocking bypass switch?
With iOS 9 content blocker's rubber meeting the road this past week, one of the top paid apps this week on the Apple App Store has announced publicly that Stack Exchange supports "Acceptable Ads" and/...
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Why is SE consolidating my accounts against my will? [duplicate]
I am a longtime SO user, but recently I created a new account for Parenting SE. (As in, new username associated with a different email address.) I do this because I use SO and similar sites (Server ...
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Why is bounty start/close timing data removed from the data explorer?
The Stack Exchange Data Explorer has a lot of useful data in its Votes table. Unfortunately, a lot of this data, and particularly the timing data, can be used to deanonimize voting patterns, which is ...
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Can employers see who views a listing?
I'm curious what information an employer gets about who views their listings (of the viewers that are logged into the site).
Do they see just a counter of page views? (eg, "12345 people has viewed ...
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More flexible privacy settings for the public and private profiles
Is it possible to make the detailed job experience description available to the Stack Overflow Careers logged users only?
I need more flexible privacy settings for the public profile, e.g. my public ...
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Can Google and Cloudflare find my SE password?
We are using Firefox with the NoScript extension on GNU/Linux, mainly for security reasons.
When we go to the login page of a Stack Exchange site, say https://mathoverflow.net, the NoScript extension ...
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If a user signs in with Facebook, their avatar comes from graph.facebook.com which may be blocked by privacy protection tools [duplicate]
It appears that some privacy protection tools (I use Privacy Badger in Chrome) block the domain on Stack Exchange sites. That means that the avatar doesn't load.
It seems like this issue on the ...
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Are there any topic boundaries for the private chat room Teachers' Lounge?
Because privacy and confidentiality means "what happens here, stays here", does that mean that participants there can freely voice concerns or questions that when brought to the public would be closed,...
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Is it possible to have different profiles/usernames across community sites?
I have a couple of sites that I have been using for a while and use in a professional context.
However, there are other community sites I would like to be more active on with asking for help from ...
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Does StackOverflow hide -1 rep from downvoter's profile for the "downvotee" so they won't be able to tell who downvoted them? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
If I downvote an answer, is the lost reputation visible to others in my profile?
I'm sure this has a potential of a chain of downvotes due to the title, but it's the best I ...
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Careers 2.0 profile: truly hidden?
The Careers 2.0 "My Profile" page allows you set "Public view" to "hidden" and "employer view" to "blocked" (in the detail/editing view the text is "Block all messages and searches")—does that really ...
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Reduce precision of "Last seen" to hours rather than minutes
The "last seen" information is on every user profile, and I would argue that in some cases it compromises user privacy and voting anonymity (though others clearly disagree). I think this is ...
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Does timing leak information about who might have downvoted?
When I come across a post that could be improved, I usually try to leave a comment explaining how. If the post is particularly poor, sometimes I also downvote at the same time.
Could the fact that I ...
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Privacy trust certificate looks outdated
Banner on the bottom of the privacy policy page says that certificate is valid today:
But on the certificate page it looks outdated:
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Isn't putting the EmailHash into the data dump a privacy concern?
I know that reversing the hash would be quite time consuming, but isn't there a privacy concern with including email hashes in the data dump. If I want to know if a person with a specific email ...
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Link to cookie policy doesn't work in "Accept all cookies" popup
See also, a more narrow bug here (tagged "status-completed", incorrectly(?)).
Upon visiting some SE sites (e.g. superuser.com), logged in or not, I receive this popup:
The "Customize ...
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Review audit of deleted answer shows personal information
I just received a review audit. It used a deleted answer, but the answer contains personal information about that user including their phone number and email address. Here's the text with the personal ...
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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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Which user IP addresses can moderators view?
Moderators may view user IP addresses. E.g., moderators can view the user's last known IP address, when viewing a deleted user.
Which other user IP addresses can moderators view? E.g., can they view ...
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User requests their own question be removed due to sensitive information
I have a question that has been flagged by the asker for removal because they say it contains private information that shouldn't be in the public domain. However they don't specify what elements they ...
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How is the Birthday field kept private?
How is the Birthday field kept private from other users? When is the display field Age changed? Is it changed just on the first of each month or randomly within an random range of Birthday? Original ...
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Can I hide from visitors my questions and answers activity?
I mean, especially from visitors who are not signed in but also from the other users.
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Is it possible to separate professional Stack Exchange accounts from personal ones?
Responding to this question reminded me of something I have been trying to work out how to do for a while.
At the moment I just have one SO/SX account with one OpenID and both work and personal ...
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Potential privacy breach due to question rate limit from IP addresses
I initially asked this question here, in Bitcoin Meta because I faced this problem originally in Bitcoin SE. I decided to ask this question here due to the very little attention it received there and ...
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Duplicate of a self-deleted question [duplicate]
I asked a question and then saw that in the logs posted, there was some identifying information for me or my employer/client etc. Since I did not want it to remain visible in the edit history, I ...
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Privacy policy is partially translated in French and German StackOverflow careers
Go to Stack Overflow Careers privacy policy, scroll down and select French or German at the bottom of the screen.
The page becomes a mismash of the selected language and English.
Here's an example ...
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Allow users to protect/disable their profiles
This is a privacy concern. I should be able to prevent other people from viewing my profile. A couple options that I should have...
Only members of the site that are logged in can view my profile
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How can SE sites use personal information, like e-mail addresses?
I submitted a question to startups.com in February 2010. In the last month, I've received two unsolicited emails from them. It seems they are abandoning the Q&A aspect of their site and they are ...
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Please don't require USB storage permission for the Android app or justify why you need it [duplicate]
The Google Play webpage for the Stack Exchange Android app shows that it requires permission to modify or delete USB storage content.
Translation:
Modifying and deleting contents of USB storage
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How can it be that people know my email adress?
Hi,
I have a Stack Overflow account and I once asked a question about mounting sparse bundles. Now I just received an email from someone I don't know:
Hi you,
I just found your question about ...
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What can I do if I post confidential information? [duplicate]
I understand the appeal of not actually deleting questions and answers, but what can we do when we accidentally post confidential information?
For example, passwords or company names. Sometimes we ...
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Remove part of a question for privacy reasons?
Is there a way to remove part of a question so that those parts are not visible in the revisions? I need the three commented lines, beginning with Doesn't work removed from this question and any other ...
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Add the [featured] tag to the "Updates to Privacy Policy (September 2021)" post
Update:
On 22/10/2021 at 16:53:37Z, the featured tag was removed from the post. So, the post had the tag for 23 days 20 hours 42 minutes 15 seconds totally (12 days, 21 hours, 50 minutes and 27 ...
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Revealing a 3rd party's IP / FQDN in a question
I'm about to ask a question about some anomalous activity in my IIS logs. Would it poor form to mention the IP addresses that I'm seeing the requests from?
They reverse lookup to what looks like ...
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Careers profile public status will not become public
I know that there a couple of questions regarding this issue, but they are marked as fixed - but it isn't.
To clarify: my profile is private (the default), so I go to 'privacy settings' and hit the '...
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Is there a need to protect users if they reveal traceable personal information?
A user was asking a sensitive question. There were comments saying "change your username and picture". I went and traced his picture and name and arrived at a website with their resume (no address ...
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Why doesn't the privacy popup go away? Can you fix it? [duplicate]
I sometimes have a popup that shows up and refuses to go.
Regardless what button I click it doesn't react. It just stays and covers part of the page. I have to resort to ctrl-shift-C to remove it. ...
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Can one view who visited a chatroom, and if so, how?
One view the list of users who are currently in a chatroom. Can one view who visited a chatroom in the past (past = before they left the chatroom), and if so, how?
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Remove personal images from Stack Overflow account
I am unable to remove my image that for some reason is being linked to my Stack Overflow account.
I went in to User Edit and changed the image to the default image (no face) but I can not find the ...
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Can we set privacy for "last seen" status? [duplicate]
When I go to any profiles it shows me the last online status for that profile under visits > seen.
seen X mins ago
However, I sometimes don't want to let everyone knows that I've visited the ...
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Do I have to use a browser plugin to stop being accosted on SE sites with the “Accept all cookies” pop-ups over and over and over? Bug? Options? [duplicate]
I keep seeing these on SE sites:
Your privacy By clicking “Accept all cookies”, you agree Stack
Exchange can store cookies on your device and disclose information in
accordance with our Cookie Policy....
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What causes people to always hide data that helps in answering problems?
I've seen a long standing trend here, and I know some of the reasons why people do what they do. What they do is use 'thedomain.com' or 'example.com' when showing the actual domain at hand would make ...
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Is Stack Overflow merging two different accounts by email without the user's consent?
I had one account through Google with email X and another account through myopenid.com. I happened to add the same email X to this myopenid.com account. My intention was to stop using the Google ...
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Is it ok having two different accounts in SO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What's the SO policy about having multiple user accounts?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2910400/problem-with-for-xml-explicit-clause-in-sql-server-2005/2910606#...
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Account privacy and search engines
When I post a question or comment to any stackexchange website, what can other people see via search engines? Can they see:
Email Address
Real Name
Any other personal information
Also, can someone ...
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Can third-party sites identify me based on StackExchange cookies?
One aspect of the StackExchange privacy policy remains unclear to me:
Do cookies and/or local shared objects (LSO) originating from a StackExchange site visit contain personal information (name, e-...
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What should I do if I post any private credentials in my question by mistake? [duplicate]
On Stack Overflow I have posted a question which contains some private credentials of mine.
Now I have edited the question and remove those credentials but it can be seen by others when someone ...
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