The exact time someone has observed or is observing organisms at a particular location is a pretty detailed piece of personal information to share publicly. Yes, iNaturalist isn’t a place to store completely private data . But, like the option to obscure or hide locations, some may feel more comfort…

This would be a good option. It would help to make it more difficult for someone to figure out where an obscured observation is by tracking the times of the observations and recreating the route the observer took that day.

if you’re going to obscure observation date (including photo metadata), you should obscure creation date and update date as well. you’d have to obscure comment and identification dates and such, and the obscuration would have to apply at an observation level, a user level, or a taxon level. that wou…

I have before asked admin if they can hide the time of day automatically for obs where the location is obscured, and the response was that it is something they are looking into. It makes sense to me. I’m not sure why one would want to hide the ToD separately from obscuring the location, if that is…

[image] vynbos: esp for animals to look at their habits, but also for IDing some plants For that reason, I’d like time obscuration to be opt-in if implemented (or, conversely, to opt out of the time obscuration). I’d rather not have to type in the time of day in every obs just to set the cont…

I agree and did mean opt-in, so I clarified that in the first post.

[image] pisum: the obscuration would have to apply at an observation level, a user level, or a taxon level This feature request is for an account-wide user preference. One can already obscure an individual observation time in a few ways: create the observation at a date later than you observe…

[image] bouteloua: What do you mean by taxon level? i mean that it would make sense to provide ability to obscure time + id# as part of auto-obscure at the taxon. it’s a bigger scope than what you asked for initially, but i think if you’re going to go down this path, you need to go all the wa…

Thanks, yeah, that’s not part of this proposal.

I don’t have strong feelings about this either way, but I’ll point it out that opting in to this would make using collection projects for something like a biolitz that has ToD start and end points pretty much impossible.

Option to hide time (show just the date)

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charlie November 22, 2022, 2:14pm 23

I do field work and am often worried i’ll find a dead body. Used to work in the mountains around LA where people would dump bodies, so i am lucky i never did. I know others who did :(

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Option to hide time (show just the date)

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