Privacy questions about administrator / moderator abilities

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Privacy questions about administrator/moderator abilities:

User Joseph_Tucker inquired about data security compliance and administrator/moderator capabilities.

  • Only forum administrators can manage user permissions.
  • A list of administrators can be found at your.discourse.url/about.
  • Moderators may have access to email addresses, depending on settings, but not names if disabled in settings.
  • The settings controlling name visibility are located in the admin page settings tab, specifically enable_names and full_name_required itsbhanusharma.
  • The forum does not verify the legitimacy of user-provided names, and moderators/admins only have access to the name displayed in the UI riking.
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Hi!

I have some questions related to privacy and data security compliance. I hope the answers will be useful to other users requiring compliance.

  1. Who can administer Permissions in the admin user profile?
    e.g. /admin/users/12345/jamessmith

  2. Where can I see a list of administrators?

  3. Do moderators have access to (a) email addresses, (b) real first and last names or other PII?

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Forum administrators

your.discourse.url/about

Depending upon settings, Moderators will have access to email address but will not see any name if name is disabled in settings.

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Thanks so much for your reply.

Where are these settings?

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In the settings tab on admin page. I don’t remember them on the top of my head but it should be very descriptive i.e. enable_names and full_name_required

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The forum only stores the name that users provide and performs no “legitimacy checking” on that name whatsoever. Moderators (and admins) don’t get any more access to the “full name” field than any other member of the forum unless you disable display of it in the UI.