Project-GC vs. geocaching.com - nova caixa de autorização para tratamento de dados

Tal como descrito aqui, o Project-GC, uma entidade externa ao geocaching.com, utiliza os dados de registos para produzir estatisticas e outros indicadores relativos à actividade de geocaching tutelada pelo geocaching.com.

Se até agora, bastava um "pisco" para que o Project-GC não vasculhasse e invadisse a nossa privacidade, a recente alteração no site do geocaching.com coloca novamente a questão da privacidade dos geocachers em cima da mesa. 

Quem se regista no site geocaching.com está "automaticamente" a ceder a terceiros informação sobre registos e outra actividade que é depois disponibilizada de forma aberta e sem qualquer controlo a todos.

Para tal não acontecer, terá que colocar o "pisco" em duas ou três caixas que não são totalmente claras no seu conteúdo/efeito prático.

Transcrevo aqui um texto encontrado no "facebook" e patrocinado pelo Project-GC:

After discussions with Geocaching HQ we will soon, in collaboration, make some changes to how Privacy settings at Geocaching.com affect Project-GC.

On Geocaching.com there are two pages one can adjust privacy settings:

- https://www.geocaching.com/account/settings/authorizations

- https://www.geocaching.com/account/settings/userprivacy

As it works today, the first of the above partly affects Project-GC. Not the least the fact that one cannot login to Project-GC with a `Do not share my personal information with Authorized Developer geocaching applications` checked. The options at the second page do not in general affect third parties at all. Geocaching HQ wishes for them to be respected by third parties, like Project-GC.

With the upcoming changes some of the detailed Privacy settings at the second page will affect Project-GC, just as the setting on the first page does. The five specific settings are:

- Geocaches found

- Trackables

- Souvenirs

- Gallery

- Statistics

These five must be set to *Public* to be able to use Project-GC. The rest aren't relevant since Project-GC does not handle that information.

However, a new setting will be added to the User privacy page. There will be an override which allows sharing the data with Project-GC specifically, regardless of the Privacy settings on the same page. So to be able to use Project-GC in the future you must:

- Allow sharing data with third parties (Authorizations page). This is already the case today.

- Have the five Privacy settings set to *Public*, ALTERNATIVELY have the Project-GC override enabled.

Any geocacher who has any of their five privacy settings "too restricted" and an active auth-token with Project-GC will get their "Project-GC override" enabled automatically, unless they fill in a form. Geocaching HQ has started to send out an email with this information. Geocaching HQ is (directly) e-mailing a form to those affected, alongside additional details.