[Bug 40249] Privacy options

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40249

--- Comment #2 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2011-08-26 02:23:09 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> A useful privacy list-related feature to add would be “let people who aren't on
> our contact list IM us”. Right now, that's left up to the server. I don't think
> there's a bug for this. There's a draft D-Bus API for this at
> <http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec/Connection_Interface_Communication_Policy.html>
> but I don't think it's implemented anywhere.

Communication policy is Bug #24908.

Another privacy-related thing (discussed on that bug, but IMO out-of-scope for
it) is control over how much of your metadata (avatar, contact info etc.) is
visible to unapproved users. The main reason we don't have this yet is that in
most protocols I've encountered, this is hard-coded in the server - e.g. XMPP
avatars and contact info have no defined way to change their visibility, and in
most servers they're always public. For the few services where you can change
visibility of your metadata (notably Skype), I think the relevant interfaces
should grow more functionality, e.g. control over the visibility of your avatar
should be on the Avatars interface.

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