I’d like to suggest Piwik add an easy way for a super admin to turn off visibility to config and location data.
On my site, I give each new user a community where they can see the analytics that occur only in their community. However, because I don’t want community mods to see private location and browser information, every time Piwik releases an updated version, I have to manually modify the /plugins/Live/Visitor.php file, specifically function cleanVisitorDetails on line 133. This is what my function looks like:
public static function cleanVisitorDetails($visitorDetails)
{
$toUnset = array('config_id');
if (!Piwik::hasUserSuperUserAccess()) {
$toUnset[] = 'idvisitor';
$toUnset[] = 'user_id';
$toUnset[] = 'location_ip';
$remove_words = array('config', 'location');
foreach ($visitorDetails as $key => $remove)
{
foreach ($remove_words as $remove)
{ if (strpos($key, $remove) !== false) { $visitorDetails[$key] = 'UNK'; } }
}
}
foreach ($toUnset as $keyName) {
if (isset($visitorDetails[$keyName])) {
unset($visitorDetails[$keyName]);
}
}
return $visitorDetails;
}
This modified code prevents anyone who doesn’t have hasUserSuperUserAccess from seeing any location or config details. (I allow them to see custom variables I’ve defined, but you could effectively have a switch to turn those off too pretty easily.) I’m not sure where best the switch functionality should go, but wanted to suggest it.