# Automate geoprivacy with user-defined geofences

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/automate-geoprivacy-with-user-defined-geofences/700>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** geoprivacy\
**Created:** [March 12, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/automate-geoprivacy-with-user-defined-geofences/700 "2019-03-12T17:09:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/automate-geoprivacy-with-user-defined-geofences/700/9 "2019-03-25T21:32:10Z")

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OK, brought it up with the team and here’s our proposal:

- 1 geofence allowed per user
- it can’t be any bigger than something like a football or soccer field
- when you upload an observation made in that area, it automatically is obscured or made private (whatever you’ve set it to do) upon creation, but you can change the geoprivacy afterward.

Obviously not exactly what everyone wants, but should solve the problem about a home place.

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