[okular] [Bug 435120] Data protection: Removing or editing annotation metadata (author, date, time) should be possible

[Rainer Klute]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435120

--- Comment #14 from Rainer Klute <rainer.klute at gmx.de> ---
(In reply to 2wxsy58236r3 from comment #13)
> I think many people use annotation tool to indicate the parts which should
> be edited in the source file. So an identifier (not necessarily the real
> name) and timestamp are useful, so that the person in charge knows who left
> the comment and when the comment was made.

This is a valid scenario and there are certainly use cases for author names and
timestamps, so the option to maintain these fields must be there. I don’t
question that.


> But in the case of PDF annotation, can you please explain your situation in
> more detail? Thank you very much!

You are asking me to explain my particular situation and elaborate why I need
more privacy. However, the data protection mindset is just the other way round:
You should never have to justify why you want privacy. It is a fundamental
right. Instead you should have to justify why privacy should be compromised,
here: why timestamps must be maintained and to which granularity, i. e., the
date might by sufficient without going down to hours and minutes.

Having said that, I simply do not want to reveal to my colleagues, to my boss,
to the other department, to our customers, or even to the world when I did the
annotations. If I want to do so, fine, but I would like to have a choice!

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