# Your petition signature is now private

> Petitions show how many people signed and how the sides split — never who signed, or which side anyone chose.

Published: 2026-09-22
URL: https://commonyard.app/news/petition-signatures-are-private/

Signing a petition is a public act. Who signed it shouldn't be.

Until today, a petition could show a wall of the people who had signed, their faces, and some of their names. From today it doesn't.

## What a petition shows now

- How many people signed.
- How the sides split: agree, not sure and disagree.

## What it never shows

- Who signed.
- Which side any one person chose.

Your signature is private. The people who run CommonYard can still look at a signature when they need to act on a report — the same as anything else that gets reported.

Nothing else about signing changes: choose your side, then press and hold until the button fills. See [Sign a petition](/guides/sign-a-petition/).