[QGIS-Developer] QGIS and privacy

[Thomas B]

Hi Matteo,
can you give an example when exposing the username could be problematic?

As far as I know other common programs like Word, Excel and so on also add
your full name as author to the metadata of every Word- or Excel file you
create.
I think this is something very useful if you work with others within one
company. If you send these files to someone else and want to get rid of
these metadata you can delete this metadata information.

I agree that exposing sensitive data would be problematic but sharing the
username does not seem to be something too private. Your full name for
example also appears in this mailing list or as part of your twitter
account. So under which circumstances would it be problematic if your name
would be written to a QGIS project file?

regards,
Thomas

Am Di., 23. März 2021 um 09:01 Uhr schrieb matteo <matteo.ghetta at gmail.com>:

> Hi devs,
>
> in the Italian QGIS Group we had a discussion on privacy "issues"
> related to the exposure of some Global Variables, like "user_full_name",
> that is automatically taken from the client.
>
> Maybe some variable should be opt-in rather then opt-out: sharing a
> project between different computers/users can expose the user name
> without an explicit agreement of the final user.
>
> What is your opinion on this?
>
> Cheers
>
> Matteo
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