In addition to this, some users may still prefer to hide their heatmap.

Here is what the feature looks like on github:

We don't have:

• private profiles
• private contributions

We don't have:

• private profiles
• private contributions

The "Make [...] and hide activity" is the relevant portion.

The "Make [...] and hide activity" is the relevant portion.

• hide activity and make my edits more difficult to review, edits that are not in some private repository and weren't reviewed before being merged with the rest of the data

Well we can allow moderators to see the heatmap even where the user has asked to hide it, and I was assuming that we would, which helps with the review problem.

I've also already started working on adding opt-out settings for users that want to hide contribution activity and will be making a PR for this in the next few days.

If users can remove the heatmap, it can't be used for navigation.

Well we can allow moderators to see the heatmap even where the user has asked to hide it

This implies that it's moderators' job to review all changesets.

Look I don't want to remove it but it legally we have no choice but to offer that option then so be it - it would be good to get an actual statement from the current LWG rather than comments from a former member of course.

My comment about moderators was simply that I thought part of what you were trying to do was make it easier for DWG to use the heatmap to explore a user's edits during investigations and I was making the point that we could preserve that ability.