Description
The BuddyPress Privacy Component (also referred to as BP Privacy, BuddyPress Authorization component, BP_Authz, or BPAz) is a BuddyPress component that provides users with fine, granular control over who has access to which pieces of their BuddyPress-core generated personal data. It provides this service by hooking into BuddyPress’ core functionality, thereby giving users the ability to control (grant or deny) access to each piece, or grouping of, their BuddyPress-core generated personal data. It does not offer privacy filtering services for data generated by 3rd-party BuddyPress components.
BP Privacy deals with authorization by verifying and managing access rights an authenticated user has to another user’s objects. The plugin also provides the option for a user to choose to expose their data to non-logged in, non-authenticated users as well (which is the default behavior for BuddyPress).
The core BuddyPress objects on which rights can be set:
- profile fields
- activity stream actions
- friends list
- messaging
- blogs (targeted v1.0-RC2)
- groups (targeted for v1.0-RC2)
WARNING:
This plugin is a release candidate version to be used only in a development sandbox and not in a production environment. Use at your own risk. This plugin is also not being developed or supported anymore by the author. It is released to the BuddyPress community for it to be adopted and further developed.
Disclaimer
This plugin is provided “as is.” It is free software licensed under the terms of the [GNU General Public License 2.0 (GPL)] (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html “GNU General Public License 2.0”) or any later version. It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Past, current, and future copyright holders are not liable for any damages or losses. Your only recourse is to stop using this plugin. See the license.txt and disclaimer.txt files distributed with this plugin for full DISCLAIMERS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS, and NOTICES.
* disclaimer.txt – contains additional DISCLAIMERS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS, and NOTICES for BP Privacy
* license.txt – contains the GNU General Public License 2.0 (GPL) license
* future.txt – contains a proposed roadmap for future versions of the BuddyPress Privacy Component (BPAz) and features to implement for v1.0-RC2