Questions tagged [privacy]
This tag is for questions about user privacy concerns within posts and elsewhere within the site.
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Please stop Google login popup from spying on Stack Exchange users
Whenever users are not logged into Stack Overflow or another Stack Exchange website, the Google login popup is shown in the top right:
Looks innocent until I look at the code:
<iframe
src="...
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What is the personally identifiable information in the developer survey?
I started the 2024 developer survey and stopped on page 1:
On that note, throughout the survey, certain answers you and your peers give will be treated as personally identifiable information, and ...
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How to turn on two-step verification on Stack Overflow [duplicate]
I just joined Stack Overflow and I want to enable two-factor authentication, but I couldn't find it. Can you please tell me how to enable it?
I couldn't find the security tab in the settings; I looked ...
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Is there a policy under what circumstances moderators are allowed to make private information public? [closed]
I came across a Meta answer with comments that made me wonder whether there is a policy on what private information Moderators are allowed to reveal under what circumstances.
This policy should at the ...
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We’ve made changes to our Privacy Notice for Collectives™
We’ve just made a few adjustments to our Privacy Notice for Collectives™. They were made to make the notice ready for the upcoming expansion of Collectives into new areas of practice - as well as ...
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If I tell Stack Overflow I'll accept all cookies, why doesn't it remember that setting? [duplicate]
Stack Overflow and all related sites pop up the ever-present cookie warnings dictated by the European Union. OK, I get that this isn't Stack Overflow's fault.
But shouldn't they use a cookie to ...
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Filters on mobile require reading illegible text in cookie consent to disable them
When opening a Stack Overflow page for the first time on mobile, the controls to disable or change the filters are entirely covered by the cookie consent dialog, which is ...quite difficult to read ...
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/articles leaks top secret AudioBubble collective articles
https://stackoverflow.com/articles has some articles from the AudioBubble™ Collective™ (which is used for testing Collectives™ in production), which is not public. These articles should not be listed ...
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Do collectives get to see my email?
I noticed in the Privacy Notice for Collectives™
WHO IS THE CONTROLLER?
(...) In addition to this privacy notice, you should review privacy notices of the participating organizations with Collectives ...
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Unable to "Customize settings" in cookie popup, it never goes away, always covers content [duplicate]
In Safari with AdBlock + Safari's Content Blockers + Safari's Tracking protection.
This happens on every page; the logs below contain the page I captured them on.
These are the logs from the developer ...
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Edits by same user merged in edit history [duplicate]
So I edited and flagged a privacy issue yesterday (question by a new user), and got this back as the flag comment:
OP had real name listed in error trace. I removed but should probably remove from ...
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Using a personal Stack Overflow account for a Team potentially allows your employer to take it over [closed]
This is based on this support request from fazy about several potential issues due to the fact that SO and Teams account are not separate entities. As this received no response, I tried one of the ...
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Make it clear that saying thanks is a public action that everyone can see [closed]
As a long time member of SO, I considered the new "say thanks" feature as another kind of voting, which naturally should be private, like the existing upvote/downvote actions.
I also ...
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Stack Overflow still wants to know my location
I just entered the website via Google and the following popup occurred:
Given Nick Craver's answer from 1.5 years ago was:
We don't. This is a rogue extension or ad most likely and we'll get to the ...
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Can human resource managers find out about my Stack overflow profile through my Developer Story? [closed]
If a human resource manager looking for a developer finds my Developer Story, Can this person find out about my StackOverflow profile and see my questions and answers and reputation?
I am concerned ...
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