I would really like to see improvements in the handling of confidential data. At present it is only possible to mark an individual occurrance as confidential. This seems inadequate.

For example, various of the ornithology groups have requested that all data on a list of taxa be excluded form the NBN. It would be really useful to be able to mark Stone Curlew as a confidential species, with all new records added being automatically marked as confidential. I realise that there are a number of ways of working round this, but work-rounds have a way of being bypassed in my experience.

A second example, as Wildlife Sites Officer, I occasionally meet landowners who are preapred to allow access to their land only onthe condition that the data collected is not passed on to any third party. You might argue that such data is useless, but it is not, if we are able to use in anonymously in our analyses, we would also be able to tell data search clents that there is a record of a legally protected species within their search area. So it would be nice to be able to have confidential sites (where the existence of the site is not confidential, but all records are.)

A third circumstance we might come across a recorder who wishes all their records to be confidential.

Any chance of any/all of these in a future release?