Woke up around 4 AM today after realizing something important was missing.
Privacy controls inside Hydra Bridge itself.
The app already allows hiding certain attendee information, but that still means the data gets forwarded to the device in the first place. Which effectively puts the person operating the check-in device in possession of attendee data.
Not ideal.
Started by adding a whole new Privacy tab to Hydra Bridge.
Then realized that was unnecessary overkill.
Removed it all and went with a much simpler approach instead: a small privacy icon that opens a popup with controls for disabling forwarding of first name, last name, and email address to the app entirely. Took me an hour to select an icon. Talking about wasting precious time.
May expand it later with more options.
And if the data never leaves the server, it obviously can’t be displayed.
Works exactly as intended.
Quite happy with this one, not going to lie.
As soon as the apps are fully approved and published (Google… please…), I’ll update the app itself so display options become unavailable when corresponding data isn’t being forwarded by Hydra Bridge.
Small detail.
But it feels like the right UX decision. I think.