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Privacy Improvement: Closed group's Group Descriptions to inform user of privacy setting

JG john gieryn Sun 2 Feb 2020 10:33PM Public Seen by 69

We have seen at least one closed group that was unaware that they were exposing the contents of their group description; that their group description (in addition to the existence/ name of their group) is effectively public although all of the contents (members etc.) are private.

This is additionally important with 2.0: As we take advantage of the handle feature, we have more groups considering the Closed setting so that they can use Loomio's built-in process for membership request/approval.

Curious: maybe there is a way to build this into the app... eg, when Group Privacy selection is Closed, then Group Description editor displays a note that tells the user it is findable on the internet.

@Rob Guthrie