Anonymous responses on Office forms: is there any way to have their email or name?

Hi Rob_Elliott 

I think you misunderstood my comment and are probably reading a bit too much into it.

Guy_Boswell was indicating that my response to a recent question about retrieving the identity of an anonymous submitter, where I indicated that this isn't possible, was an obvious fact and not adding anything to the conversation.

I responded that it isn't necessarily obvious to all users as we still see questions from MTC members asking if it's possible to know who the anonymous submitter is. As experienced users, we know that it isn't possible, and that is why I responded with a simple answer to let them know it isn't possible.

This thread is long-running and if you read through you'll see repetitive questions from different users asking the same thing and us, as forum members, responding with the same answers. These are the educational contributions that we make to each other. I enjoy it.

To your other comment, I agree that saying a form is anonymous and then secretly having a way to find out who submitted the response is a serious breach of privacy laws across many countries and is a terrible idea! I wouldn't ever suggest doing that and, legalities aside, I think it would be a massive breach of trust if Microsoft did that.

Lastly, I think the Forms Pro features were rolled into Dynamics 365 Customer Voice which would already have embedded controls to manage GDPR and other legal requirements like Dynamics 365 Sales and Marketing (CRM) does today.

Cheers

Damien