The following is from the Screven County list. This has also happened to me and two of our members on this list are guilty of this. I would greatly appreciate it if the person who posted my name and my parents names to the internet would remove that information. Something said in an e-mail correspondence to establish who we are does not give you the right to post it. Also, many seem to be in a rush to post every name they can find to the net and are perpetuating incorrect informtion. Slow down a bit and take a little time to verify that these people are actually a part of the line you are posting. Others copy the incorrect information, add it to their database, and repost it to be copied again. Before long we will have so much bogus information out there that it will be difficult to sieve it out. I'm climbing down carefully from the soap box now. Ann >Return-Path: <[email protected]> >Delivered-To: [email protected] >Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:46:23 -0800 (PST) >From: "Deborah Byrd" <[email protected]> >Old-To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> >Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:47:08 -0700 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 >Subject: [GASCREVE] data sharing >Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1562 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > >I have received questions on internet courtesy and ethics, so I am on >my soap box right now. I don't mean to give offense or speak to >anyone in paticular. Please listen, the comment is rather long. > >If I understand the copyright laws correctly, something written in an >email is as protected under that law as something written on paper. >Before sharing data received via email please check back with the >sender to see if is okay to pass that data to others who were not part >of the original address list. > >Also please don't share information about living people without their >permission and don't post that information to the net without >permission. Following the Census bureau rules of release of private >information is a good rule of thumb. Census bureau doesn't release >data less than 72 years old. > >Releasing private information such as year of birth, locality of >birth, and parents can provide enough information on a living person >to help someone steal their indentity. Indentity theft is becomming >an issue and if it happens to you it will be an issue that may take >years to clean up. Idenity theft occurs when someone takes your name >and records and makes it their own, Usually fraud is involved and the >real person is left holding/owning/owing the bag for what the thief >stole. It will be hard to prove that you are not the person who >purpetuated the fraud. > >I know of a woman in Seattle who afters two plus years is still trying >to reclaim her indentity. Of course the most commonly cited sources >of information for theft are the genealogy boards, mailing lists, and >websites. We are such a sharing community that we frequently don't >think of the common courtesy of asking permission to share data or the >possible effects of free and open data sharing. > >Please continue to share data back and forth, that is why we are here, >just be a little more thoughtful of sharing information on the living. >Also think to ask your new found cousin if you can share with someone >else the data they just sent. > >As you share information ask yourself a couple of questions 1) is the >information adequately documented or not and 2) whether you are >willing for the data to become set in concrete as truth if you are not >sure of its veracity. Some with whom you share data that is in the >"maybe possible category" will forget the attached "maybe" and make it >truth. > >Deborah Byrd >list owner > > >==== GASCREVE Mailing List ==== >Visit the Screven County GAGenWeb page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~gascreve/ > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > > >