As Michal said, forcing login wont stop "those that want to cause harm". They will just login and harvest the data. They can also just scrape the osm data, so I dont think this is an issue with HDYC as much it is a privacy concern with OSM data itself.
If you dont want to be associated with your edits: create a generic account that has nothing to do with your usual usernames i.e. AnonymousUser001 or OSMUser001 and never communicate about the work done on that account with your main profile/email. That way you dissociate yourself from that user and your social media accounts. If people cant find a link between personal identifyable info(facebook, twitter, email, linkedin) and the editing user there is no cause for alarm. Worst case they will say: Oh there's an osm user that lives in this area....so do 35 other users. Basic internet anonymity 101... On May 4, 2017 4:51 PM, "Christoph Hormann" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 04 May 2017, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > > > > > Just to make this clear since there are likely quite a few people > > > reading here who will not be able or willing to parse the > > > discussion on the German forum - discussion there was about privacy > > > concerns w.r.t. editing metadata, which is what is the basis of > > > Mixing this with the subject of openness of geodata and > > > privacy concerns reagarding geodata (like mappers recording names > > > from the doors of private homes etc.) is not really appropriate - > > > two very different matters which need to be considered separately. > > > > I don't think Michał was mixing those two different matters. > > Michał made a connection to privacy concerns regarding Google StreetView > which were exclusively about the recorded data and not about the > recording metadata (which Google obviously has no interest in > publishing). > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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