Post #1628344
2026-04-13 03:16 UTC
@johannab @Niall The only personal information iNaturalist collects about you is your email to validate your account.
However, through your observations, you're also publicly sharing everywhere you were when you saw some cool critter. You can make those coordinates obscured or private from public view when you wish, but they're still going to be stored somewhere in iNat's US-based servers.
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@johannab@cosocial.ca 2026-04-13 03:41
@joncounts @Niall yeah, I get that. gotta think about it some more. I'm trying to de-googlify myself too and that is running hard. I've used gmail since the days of "you have to wait for an invite for gmail's upcoming release". I also don't want to cast out all good babies with the fashy bathwater, I know there's lots of good ethical tech work done by US-ians, but I also want to see more serious consideration of regionalization and data sovereignty - for my good AND theirs.