[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14682: Privacy leakage: gravatars leak identity information

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#14682: Privacy leakage: gravatars leak identity information
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 Reporter:  jmdh             |       Owner:                 
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new            
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Comments         |     Version:  3.0.1          
 Severity:  normal           |    Keywords:                 
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Comment(by ryan):

 The avenues of address are to never show gravatars, weigh down the form
 with privacy policy tedium and explanations of baroque things such as md5
 hashes, provide some sort of gravatar opt-in in the form which would have
 to be stored per comment, or simply remove the "will not be published"
 parenthetical.  All of these seem unfriendly overkill for what is a
 willful and deliberate leak at the source.  "Mail (will not be published)"
 does what it says. Plain text email addresses are not published so that
 they cannot be scraped by spammers.  Deriving other privacy assertions
 beyond that is highly speculative on the part of a commenter who is giving
 away his email address (not to mention his IP) to a third party.

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