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Privacy settings seem to be broken in Placemarks
Privacy settings seem to be broken in Placemarks. I've set a particular placemark to be private. Yet when I post a note on that placemark, it's location is revealed when it re-posts to twitter. I think this is a serious security flaw
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Inappropriate?Hi firsttiger, are you still logged in to Brightkite when you click on the link in Twitter? If you are it would still show the full location to you. When I click the link, I only see the city for your post:
I checked a few of your crossposts and all seem to be respecting your privacy settings. I hope that helps clarify things.
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Inappropriate?Hi Lesley, Thanks for the info. However, the placemark settings set for my current location is set to always private. I would have thought that would mean that no posts would go out if I were here.
I’m still concerned
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Inappropriate?Only if you have it hidden for everyone else. If you have it set to city level, it still shares.
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Inappropriate?Hi Lesley, I'm very confused. So what does always private in the placemark settings mean then? The feature does not seem to have value if it is always overridden by the default settings. What I'm trying to accomplish is to have everyone know generally where I am except when I am in particular places. Is that doable?
I’m confused
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Inappropriate?Always private means everything you do at that location will be private according to your privacy settings, it doesn't mean that everything will be hidden (unless your privacy settings are set to hidden). It's basically so people don't have to remember to switch back and forth between public/private when they check in at home or any other location they don't want to disclose to the public.
Since you're always in private mode, you are correct that it provides little value for you. Currently there's no way to do what you want unless you manually change your privacy to hidden before you check in at home. However, I think there are some improvements we can make to this feature that will not only make it clearer, but also more valuable for people who want to use it like you, so we will look into doing that.
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