I wanted to ask if there’s an option for obscuring geoprivacy/time/date by default? I’ve read through some of the topics and it seems that the majority of the concerns are about the species being observed, for very valid reasons. However, for users like me who live in countries with security concer…

Thanks, so basically it’s not possible according to staff: “Because iNat is fundamentally about sharing information , it’s not possible to set a default geoprivacy to obscured or private. It needs to be done on an observation-by-observation basis, via batch editing on upload in the web uploader, or v…

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pisum August 2, 2021, 3:50am 5

see:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/changing-default-geoprivacy/14207/3

also:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/automate-geoprivacy-with-user-defined-geofences/700
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/option-to-hide-time-show-just-the-date/4469

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Changing default geoprivacy General	23	3500	October 22, 2020
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