Allow profiles to display or hide information

Release notes

Users can select information to display in their profiles to hide things that could be used to target and harass users, such as:

• time
• location
• status
• pronoun information

Problem to solve

Private profiles are not completely private and can reveal sensitive information such as location and time.

Proposal

Users should be able to hide information from being seen on private profiles but still allow them to be seen internally. When working with colleagues it's important to let them know your status such as vacation windows but that information can be used to target individuals.

Intended users

All users

Links

• Docs: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/profile/#make-your-user-profile-page-private

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marked this issue as related to #421208 (closed)

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mentioned in issue #234299 (closed)

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still allow them to be seen internally

This needs to be clarified.

1. GitLab.com today does not have internal visibility.
2. Internal on GitLab.com is millions of users
3. Today, private profile means that the hidden information is only available to the user, and GitLab administrators.

Added details to #421208 (closed) for the corporate use case; maybe leave this issue open to cover the individual use case.

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mentioned in issue #368127

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