Questions tagged [privacy]
For questions related to user privacy.
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"RSVP for our webinar with Stack Overflow" How do I make it stop?
I received an email from a recruiter today entitled "RSVP for our webinar with Stack Overflow",
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Hays is hosting a webinar with Stack Overflow and I'd like to personally ...
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Privacy Policy Updates (Feb 2020)
We want to share with you that we have updated our Privacy Policy to keep up with the ever evolving data privacy laws and regulations concerning our global community of users and our sites. We also ...
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Is posting doxxing information ever acceptable?
I would think the obvious answer here is no, but...
Recently certain American politicians have been circulating some unsubstantiated doxxing information alleging to out a whistleblower. This has led ...
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A user's original email address is retained in the system even after they've changed it on all sites (privacy risk, potential Area 51 sync issues)
To understand this report, first, let's have a look at the profile fields for setting one's primary email address in the system.
On most sites in the network, you'll find that option in Edit profile ...
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Exactly which users PII do moderators have access to? [duplicate]
This recent question here on meta has brought to my attention something I never realized before - non-employee moderators have access to some tools that can disclose an user EMail address.
Since I ...
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Restrict moderator tools that allow mass dumping of user emails
There is a tool available to moderators that can show up to 1000 email addresses at once with a single query. On smaller sites, this tool is probably powerful enough to create a dump of the email ...
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Anonymize or hash the user ID part of a shared link so users can earn badges for sharing links without any privacy leaks or prank/troll risks
The "share" link underneath a post includes the sharing user's ID for the purposes of awarding the user with Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges in case enough users from different IP ...
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Is "The Loop" covered by SO's Privacy and GDPR policies?
SO's "GDPR Policy" states in part
we describe how we collect and use your data, and how we use technologies like cookies to understand how we can better help developers.
However, The Loop's first ...
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Social media disclaimer policy for SE Staff
The most recent SE incident (as well as several others earlier) was largely inflated by the interaction of SE/SE Staff with the press and some social media interactions (tweets/re-tweets, in ...
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Does Stack Exchange have a responsibility to protect the rights of their volunteers?
The question is focused on the company's responsibility for taking action without just cause against an appointed moderator on Meta Stack Exchange (herein called SE).
There is a moderator contract ...
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Did Upper Management ignore the growing tension in the TL that resulted in Monica's being axed?
I am not asking for any statements or details of the situation in TL to be revealed.
I am asking just whether Upper Management ignored the situation until the situation exploded with Monica's being ...
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Does the policy that suspension details aren't released publicly still apply even if the user says they are OK with them being released?
There is a policy that the details regarding a site suspension aren't released publicly, and that the only one who is allowed to bring it up publicly is the suspended user themselves. Officially, this ...
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Users need to be able to remove themselves and all their data from the site
Many users no longer feel safe participating here and don't feel comfortable with SE having data about them. While there is a way to delete your account which will result in all your posts being ...
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Under what circumstances will Stack Exchange, Inc. share private/sensitive information with the press?
What are Stack Exchange, Inc.'s policies regarding whether and when private or sensitive information will be shared by the company with the public, and particularly with the press?
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Area 51 login apparently requires the HTTP referer to be on
I have a Mac on Mojave 10.14.6 (10.15 is newest) with Firefox 69.0.1 (according to Mozilla's website, the current release is 69.0.3).
I just tried to log in to Area 51, and got stuck on the page ...
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