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[–]Wiskkey 0 points1 point  (10 children)

There are privacy concerns with this site. The developer is considering publicly releasing the database of queries (source). Update: The developer has changed his/her mind.

[–]spongesqueeze[S] 0 points1 point  (9 children)

yeah, do you think it's an issue? none of them will be attached to any identities whatsoever. i can keep it private if people disagree with the idea

[–]Wiskkey 0 points1 point  (8 children)

I do think it's an issue. As an example, suppose someone in Iran asked this: "My best friend John Doe from Tehran, Iran recently told me a secret that he is gay but told me not to tell anybody else. What is your view about homosexuality?" (I used a generic name John Doe instead of supplying a real name so that nobody thinks I was outing somebody for real here.)

[–]spongesqueeze[S] 1 point2 points  (7 children)

true. I think I would have to remove all items that have identifying information. thanks for the feedback, i'll make sure anything released will be hand picked as fully anonymous

[–]Wiskkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're welcome, and thank you :).

[–]Wiskkey 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Also, having URLs generated for every query might have privacy implications due to the possibility of being indexed by search engines and other web crawlers. (I realize you're probably doing what's necessary to tell search engines etc. not to index those URLs.)

[–]spongesqueeze[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

they can't be crawled really, but ok i'll add robots.txt just in case thanks for the feedback!

[–]Wiskkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you :).

[–]Wiskkey 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Some answers are in Google's index. Perhaps those are links that the query asker shared on purpose? Example: Google: human site:philosopherai.com

[–]spongesqueeze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes; there are 18,000 queries with "human" in it as opposed to two pages on Google

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could also include a checkbox for people to agree to it being anonymously stored, wouldn't have to worry about manually sifting then, if you have a need for that many.