Advice If you use tapatalk, you might wanna hide your info

plot said:
I don't want it emailing random people about me though. Privacy should always be a concern, each person should be able to choose how private or open they want too be, some app shouldn't decide for them.
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Right but if you sign up with a username of your firstname.lastname isn't that on the user and not the company? Last I checked Tapatalk has no other information other than my e-mail, username and now that I'm female. No one forces a person to pick that stuff as a username.
 
helenabear said:
Right but if you sign up with a username of your firstname.lastname isn't that on the user and not the company? Last I checked Tapatalk has no other information other than my e-mail, username and now that I'm female. No one forces a person to pick that stuff as a username.
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Is there an option to not share your information with whoever they want too though? That's the privacy issue, them giving out info.
 
plot said:
Is there an option to not share your information with whoever they want too though? That's the privacy issue, them giving out info.
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They're not giving out information. JCC noticed that people had firstname.lastname listed on the e-mail he got about who liked his posts. Those were the chosen usernames. So IMO this a whole lot of bitching about a user picked name and not privacy.
 
Mr. Asa said:
No.
They weren't.
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Uh, yes you do. I remember signing up whenever my work forum started to support tapatalk in the last year or so. I chose my username. I double checked and I could change it again right now if I wanted to. It shows your username when you are logged in as well. So sorry I side with user choice, not privacy issues.
 
No you said you used it before it was Tapatalk and they didn't let you choose then. So sorry if I am confused by this dumb argument, because you can go change it now if you wanted to. I even googled and back in 2009 you could change it too. I never use anything with firstname.lastname if I don't want others to know it isn't me. That's why you create throwaway accounts. Keep real name for personal stuff, and fake names for online crap.
 
helenabear said:
They're not giving out information. JCC noticed that people had firstname.lastname listed on the e-mail he got about who liked his posts. Those were the chosen usernames. So IMO this a whole lot of bitching about a user picked name and not privacy.
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regardless, they shouldn't be sending that to other people in my opinion
 
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Jimmycrackcorn said:
regardless, they shouldn't be sending that to other people in my opinion
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But they aren't pulling it out of the profiles where it is hidden. That's all. Just a different point of view for me really. Never use your name in an e-mail or username unless you want people to know it.

I think it's good that you pointed it out to those, but really that's something you should keep track of (generic you - not you you) if you are touchy about it being out here.
 
helenabear said:
But they aren't pulling it out of the profiles where it is hidden. That's all. Just a different point of view for me really. Never use your name in an e-mail or username unless you want people to know it.

I think it's good that you pointed it out to those, but really that's something you should keep track of (generic you - not you you) if you are touchy about it being out here.
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most may not know how touchy they need to be if others are going to send their information out via e-mail.....username, or otherwsie
 
helenabear said:
But they aren't pulling it out of the profiles where it is hidden. That's all. Just a different point of view for me really. Never use your name in an e-mail or username unless you want people to know it.

I think it's good that you pointed it out to those, but really that's something you should keep track of (generic you - not you you) if you are touchy about it being out here.
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Doesn't matter what someone's email or app user name is, tapatalk shouldn't be sending info provided to them only to others who are only provided with a forum user name. They are merging two different databases of info given to two different entities and providing the combined info to a third party which is a privacy issue.
 
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plot said:
Doesn't matter what someone's email or app user name is, tapatalk shouldn't be sending info provided to them only to others who are only provided with a forum user name. They are merging two different databases of info given to two different entities and providing the combined info to a third party which is a privacy issue.
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We'll have to agree to disagree. If you use a username you cannot expect it to be 'private' sorry JMO on that.
 
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