> With Oauth on the horizon, "privacy settings" is something that has been
> discussed. Unfortunately engineers time is limited and for the time being
> we have opted to expose the data as if everyone had their privacy settings
> set to maximum.

> On 18 May 2012 11:15, Paul Ericksen wrote:

>> If I make 40 loans, it will only show one so that one person doesn't
>> overwhelm the activity -- but if the goal is to make some widget for a
>> webpage or something, then that is probably all you'd need since you aren't
>> looking for complete history of transactions for a given period. Also, I'd
>> originally stated that you have to be a member of the team to see the
>> activity, I was incorrect. Recent Activity can be seen by anyone, making it
>> fully "public" info. If you had to be a member of the team to see it, then
>> exposing it via the API would be exposing more via the API than the site.
>> But, since that's not the case, there aren't the privacy concerns.

>> Paul

>> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Pim Schaaf wrote:

>>> Hey Paul,

>>> Thanks for your extensive explanation. I understand the point you make
>>> and I'd be the last to want to upset people by changing the disclosure of
>>> information against their will.

>>> Still I would like to further discuss the recent loan attribution listed
>>> on the site (you mentioned: *If you belong to a team, you can see a
>>> loan made by another member in the "recent activity"*).
>>> Strictly seen this information is thus not private, although admittedly
>>> somewhat tucked away and impermanent. Would it be possible to publish
>>> the same impermanent summaries through the API by, for instance,
>>> including the loan attribution data in the "GET
>>> /lending_actions/recent" method?

>>> Privacy settings would indeed be a great solution to "liberate" the data
>>> in Kiva's databases.

>>> Thanks again,
>>> Pim

>>> On Thursday, May 10, 2012 1:56:10 AM UTC+2, Paul wrote:

>>>> Hey Pim,

>>>> While I understand how useful it would be to do this, there are privacy
>>>> concerns regarding this. While most people probably wouldn't care about
>>>> exposing which team their loan was attributed to, this information is not
>>>> currently visible on the site. If you belong to a team, you can see a loan
>>>> made by another member in the "recent activity", but that's just a summary
>>>> of recent activity. But there is no way to look at someone's list of loans
>>>> and know what team it was attributed to. Changing what information we're
>>>> disclosing involves messaging users and updating our legalese. I
>>>> know specifically of a few lenders who would probably be livid if we
>>>> started exposing that. Any time there's a change in what is public, you're
>>>> going to find that there were people who were expecting it to stay private
>>>> for some reason.

>>>> When you turn on Super Graphs for a user's profile (here's mine:
>>>> http://www.kiva.org/**lender/nuclearspike?super_**graphs=1<http://www.kiva.org/lender/nuclearspike?super_graphs=1>)
>>>> if you're logged in and looking at your own graphs (scroll to bottom), it
>>>> will show break-down by team, but this is hidden to other users.
>>>> Internally, there has been some discussion about adding more privacy
>>>> options where users could decide their own privacy settings -- maybe you
>>>> don't want people to see your loan portfolio but you don't want to go fully
>>>> anonymous (can't post team messages, can't send/receive lender messages).
>>>> Then we could add features like this and default new users to a more open
>>>> setting, but keep existing users at their current level of privacy with the
>>>> option to show more if they wanted. I am not a product manager; I'm just
>>>> thinking out loud.

>>>> To my knowledge this is not on the roadmap at this point, though I'm
>>>> not on that team anymore.
>>>> Paul

>>>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Pim Schaaf wrote:

>>>> I agree with Vaclav. As for now it seems there is no way to distinguish
>>>>> lender's loans by loan attribution, is there?

>>>>> On Monday, March 5, 2012 11:37:09 PM UTC+1, Vaclav wrote:

>>>>>> I'd like the ability to get team members by loan count, but counting
>>>>>> only the loans that actually count towards the team.
>>>>>> For example for the Czech team, there is a page showing the top
>>>>>> lenders with most loans. But as of now, the loan count is the count
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> all the loans made by the team member, not the count of loans made
>>>>>> inside the team, as that is to my knoledge curently impossoble.
>>>>>> http://www.taborsky.cz/kiva/ .
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> Vaclav

>>>>>> On Jan 17, 6:51 pm, Martin Butt <mar...@kiva.org> wrote:
>>>>>> > Hi,

>>>>>> > We are starting to plan the next generation of the API. If there
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> > any features that you would particularly like to see, let me know!

>>>>>> > Cheers,
>>>>>> >     Martin

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