# Limiting/customising user data collection

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/limiting-customising-user-data-collection/12143>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 23, 2014, 9:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/limiting-customising-user-data-collection/12143 "2014-01-23T09:48:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![drbrake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/drbrake/32/107931_2.png) [@drbrake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/drbrake)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 9:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/limiting-customising-user-data-collection/12143/1 "2014-01-23T09:48:28Z")

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When I went to register for this site and tried out Twitter or Google, both notified me that you are collecting data that you do not need to in order to run the service like, say, my location. Is this because both services have minimum levels of data they pass on or because you wanted it for some reason? Is this something that hosts of discourse will be able to customise depending on what they ask Google etc to pass on? If people do direct registration with the host I take it the host will be able to customise the data that they ask the users for before they can join?

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