Questions tagged [privacy]

Questions related to ensuring that the privacy of living individuals and potentially-sensitive information is preserved when collecting and publishing family history and genealogical data.

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Dealing with family secrets?

How should I deal with a family secret that directly affects a full branch on the family tree? For example, there are two brothers, both married and both have kids. Brother A is the father of his kids with his wife. Brother A is also the father of…
Justin808
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What are the ethics rules for recording information on living persons on online genealogy sites?

Possible Duplicate: What information should or can I publish to a web site? One concern I have with recording information about LIVING persons on sites like Ancestry.ca, the site I use, is that nothing I record should be accessible to anyone who…
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