Privacy settings should also apply to the Second Life Viewer
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Delssia Resident
Hello,
I would like to suggest an improvement to Second Life's privacy system.
Residents can currently choose to hide certain real-life (RL) information through the privacy settings on the My Second Life website. However, these settings do not appear to apply to the Second Life Viewer.
As a result, information that a resident has chosen to hide may still be visible to other residents when viewing their profile in the Viewer.
For consistency and privacy, a resident's privacy choices should apply across the entire Second Life platform, including both the website and the Viewer.
I would therefore suggest that:
Privacy settings from My Second Life also apply to profiles viewed in the Second Life Viewer.
Information that a resident has chosen to hide should remain hidden in the Viewer.
Privacy settings should be synchronized between the website and the Viewer.
This would provide a more consistent privacy experience and give residents better control over the personal information they choose to share.
Thank you for considering this suggestion.
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AlettaMondragon Resident
The Web Profile (Feed, which is only a part of it) is a bit too old and inconsistent, but it has a few very good ideas. Those privacy settings which are useful only apply to the Feed and that's exactly how they intended it, just like how you can apply similar settings on Facebook, Twitter, Primfeed, etc. Other parts of your Web Profile are in sync with what you can see in the viewer and the restrictions don't apply to those parts.
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Thanks for taking the time to write up this request about having My Second Life privacy settings (like hiding RL info / limiting Picks visibility) apply consistently in the Second Life Viewer as well.
We found this is a duplicate of an older report from Second Life’s previous bug tracking system (the Jira archive):
BUG-2818
. That issue covers the same core concern—profile privacy settings on the website not being respected consistently when viewing profiles in-world/in the Viewer.Because it matches an existing archived issue, we’re marking your report as
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under BUG-2818
so feedback and impact stay consolidated in one place. While we can’t provide an ETA, adding your details here is helpful context for prioritization and for understanding how residents expect privacy controls to behave across the website and Viewer.SL Feedback
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