Questions tagged [privacy]
For questions related to user privacy.
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Stop automatically merging accounts without asking the users
Currently, users are automatically merged if SE detects certain situations that indicate that the users belong to the same real person. Some aspects of this have been mentioned in meta posts, but in ...
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Is the company selling our Personal Information or not?
While once again reviewing the Data Request page looking for an answer to my ignored concerns, I stumbled on the current revision of the Privacy Policy page.
In its first paragraph the policy reads:
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Why do Stack Exchange sites occasionally request my device location?
I received the following prompt when visiting Math Stack Exchange following a link from Google:
The exact URL in my address bar was:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/606375/prove-that-every-...
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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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In the data request page, what does the "Do not sell my information" request type do?
The recent "Upcoming privacy updates: removal of the Activity data section and Google conversion pixel deprecation" communication made me realize that the Data Request submit page includes &...
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How does Stack Exchange verify an advertiser is adhering to its advertising policies?
How does Stack Exchange ensure that ads don't deliver a tracking pixel if I have opted out of cookies? Is it impossible for an ad to track me if I have opted out of targeting pixels or could an ad ...
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Anonymized chat messages are now searchable by user
Something appears to have changed recently whereby anonymised messages have become searchable under the user.
For example;
https://chat.stackoverflow.com/search?user=1640606&q=stackoverflow
This ...
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GDPR deletion form is unintuitive
One would assume that a user who's going to be deleting their account completely and irrevocably network-wide would be unimpressed with dark patterns.
I was looking up the GDPR deletion page to point ...
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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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Honour the Do Not Track header
2011-10-26: waffles's answer to Do Not Track header:
We do not do anything special for the proposed spec. There is no requirement anywhere that we implement anything. A bill may be passed in congress ...
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Websockets can be used to spy on users' activity
Stack Exchange's removal of "last seen" has demonstrated that the time that users are active is considered private information. However, there are still a variety of ways to circumvent that, ...
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Please preserve the "customize public view" feature
Based on the answer to this question it appears that the recent Careers 2.0 Profile email was directed at the "customize public view" feature. I would like to formally request that this feature be ...
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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.
It ...
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In the data request page, what does the "Object to Processing" request type do?
Following my earlier, still unanswered question "In the data request page, what does the "Do not sell my information" request type do?" I noticed that the aforementioned page ...
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The Activity Data section of the user settings page is misleading
The new advertising policy states:
Retargeting pixels are allowed for a limited number of vetted and pre-approved Programmatic partners.
On the settings page of my profile it states:
Stack Overflow ...
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