https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159130
Bug ID: 159130
Summary: Add option to remove personal information from
documents at runtime
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Blocks: 116885
This is a followup to bug 157484
It is possible to fine tune what sort of personal information to remove at save
time, but it can be useful to do the same at runtime in the document, similarly
to how the Inspect Document dialog works in MSO (minus the inspection part).
1. Open attachment 189853 from bug 157482
2. Open Tools - Options - Security - Options
3. Check the "Remove Personal information on saving" box, close the dialogs
3. Save the file as another name, reopen
-> The personal informations such as the comments or the tracked changes
author, date are removed.
Doing the same should be possible at runtime in a separate dialog.
First idea was to add this to the infobar that is visible when there are
security warnings enabled (see attachment 190296) and the user tries to
print/PDF export/save/digitally sign the file. So that there would be two
buttons on the infobar, one to change the warning settings (see also bug
159128) and this one to instantly clean them.
Another possible place could be the File - Properties dialog where there is a
"Reset Properties" button to clean the file level metadata.
Changing it to "Clear personal information" and popup the dialog where the user
can select what to clean.
Note: by my understanding "Reset Properties" button can remove the same file
level metadata as the "Remove Personal information on saving" -> Document user
information option, so there is already similar functionality.
I think just extending the "Reset Properties" button to "do more" and not give
any details/choices about what is happening is not desirable, as that would not
be educative towards the users about just what sort of personal metadata is
created in a document/spreadsheet/presentation.
The dialog could offer with checkboxes to remove the same things from the
document that are listed below the "Remove Personal information on saving"
button (track changes, document user info, notes info, document version info),
but without saving it at the same time.
Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 25276df12abd9d002f7f899900434617b256f745
CPU threads: 15; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (hu_HU); UI: de-DE
Calc: threaded
Referenced Bugs:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116885
[Bug 116885] [META] Privacy and data security issues
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