The legal right to privacy does not trump public records that are made available by the state. David On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Michael and Vivian Saffold wrote: > Hello, all, > > The committee has completed its work on a proposed privacy policy for the > GAGenWeb Project. > > Thanks to chairman Keith Giddeon and members Linda Blum-Barton, Ed Gordon > and Liz Nash for their work on this. > > The proposed policy is cited below, as well as at the following url: > http://www.giddeon.com/wilkes/privacy/ > > Let's have discussion on this for the remainder of the week, and be > prepared to vote on Monday, May 2. > > As always, let's keep the discussion respectful and issue-focused. > > Thanks, > > Vivian > > Final Committee Draft of The GAGenWeb Privacy Policy > > The GAGenWeb Project is dedicated to the free exchange of genealogical > information on the World Wide Web. Our goal is to provide free genealogical > information for the family researcher in a manner that will protect the > privacy of living persons by not sharing personal information about them > without their permission. > In order to provide the most protection, some genealogical information may > not be available to the researcher. Being aware that the sharing of > information online is essential to family history research, and that living > persons have a right to privacy, The GAGenWeb Project and the volunteers > who make up the Project will abide by the following guidelines when > publishing personal information of any person on a Project site. > > Project Volunteers should: > > � recognize that the legal right to privacy may limit how information is > used on their Web site(s). > > � never knowingly include information of living persons on their site(s) > without that person's prior approval. > > � provide information, as needed, to contributors on the need to protect > the privacy of their living relatives. > > � ask contributors if permission has been granted by living people for the > sharing of personal information about them. > > � remove any information upon receipt of a request by the person listed at > the earliest possible time. > > Allowable exceptions to this policy are: > > � Census records � transcriptions or other facsimiles of U. S. Census > Bureau schedules are acceptable for use on Project sites, though a Project > volunteer should remove any person's census record upon request by that person. > > � Marriage records � transcriptions or other facsimiles of county marriage > records are acceptable for use on Project sites, though a Project volunteer > may choose a specific cut-off date for their local or special project. A > Project volunteer should remove any person's name from a marriage record > upon request by that person. > > � Cemetery surveys � compiled cemetery headstones are acceptable for use on > Project sites, though a Project volunteer should remove any living person's > headstone transcription upon request by that person. > > � Obituaries � the names of surviving family members, pallbearers, and > friends listed in obituaries may be published, if all other personal > information (such as place of street address, employer, etc.) on those > persons is redacted. > ====================================================================== > > > > > ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== > GAGenWeb By-Laws Committee Information Web Site: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacolqu2/bylaws/ > David W. Morgan [email protected] Honolulu Hawaii CC Representative, SWSC Region, USGenWeb Project http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dmorgan/

Records made available by a state usually require specific information by the requester and a fee for each record. Just because a recordset is made available by a state does not mean we should abandon ehtics and publish them wholly. David W. Morgan wrote: >The legal right to privacy does not trump public records that >are made available by the state. > >David > > >On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Michael and Vivian Saffold wrote: > > > >>Hello, all, >> >>The committee has completed its work on a proposed privacy policy for the >>GAGenWeb Project. >> >>Thanks to chairman Keith Giddeon and members Linda Blum-Barton, Ed Gordon >>and Liz Nash for their work on this. >> >>The proposed policy is cited below, as well as at the following url: >>http://www.giddeon.com/wilkes/privacy/ >> >>Let's have discussion on this for the remainder of the week, and be >>prepared to vote on Monday, May 2. >> >>As always, let's keep the discussion respectful and issue-focused. >> >>Thanks, >> >>Vivian >> >>Final Committee Draft of The GAGenWeb Privacy Policy >> >>The GAGenWeb Project is dedicated to the free exchange of genealogical >>information on the World Wide Web. Our goal is to provide free genealogical >>information for the family researcher in a manner that will protect the >>privacy of living persons by not sharing personal information about them >>without their permission. >>In order to provide the most protection, some genealogical information may >>not be available to the researcher. Being aware that the sharing of >>information online is essential to family history research, and that living >>persons have a right to privacy, The GAGenWeb Project and the volunteers >>who make up the Project will abide by the following guidelines when >>publishing personal information of any person on a Project site. >> >>Project Volunteers should: >> >>? recognize that the legal right to privacy may limit how information is >>used on their Web site(s). >> >>? never knowingly include information of living persons on their site(s) >>without that person's prior approval. >> >>? provide information, as needed, to contributors on the need to protect >>the privacy of their living relatives. >> >>? ask contributors if permission has been granted by living people for the >>sharing of personal information about them. >> >>? remove any information upon receipt of a request by the person listed at >>the earliest possible time. >> >>Allowable exceptions to this policy are: >> >>? Census records ? transcriptions or other facsimiles of U. S. Census >>Bureau schedules are acceptable for use on Project sites, though a Project >>volunteer should remove any person's census record upon request by that person. >> >>? Marriage records ? transcriptions or other facsimiles of county marriage >>records are acceptable for use on Project sites, though a Project volunteer >>may choose a specific cut-off date for their local or special project. A >>Project volunteer should remove any person's name from a marriage record >>upon request by that person. >> >>? Cemetery surveys ? compiled cemetery headstones are acceptable for use on >>Project sites, though a Project volunteer should remove any living person's >>headstone transcription upon request by that person. >> >>? Obituaries ? the names of surviving family members, pallbearers, and >>friends listed in obituaries may be published, if all other personal >>information (such as place of street address, employer, etc.) on those >>persons is redacted. >>====================================================================== >> >> >> >> >>==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== >>GAGenWeb By-Laws Committee Information Web Site: >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacolqu2/bylaws/ >> >> >> > >David W. Morgan [email protected] Honolulu Hawaii >CC Representative, SWSC Region, USGenWeb Project >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dmorgan/ > > > >==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== >Confused about Copyrights? Review USGenWeb's policy on copyrights at: > http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html > > > > > > >