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Australia / ETHICS and naming possibly living people in this public forum
« on: Wednesday 20 April 22 07:51 BST (UK) »
I am attaching a pdf that I have, today, made re the Ethics Policy statements for both the Victoria peak body and the NSW peak body for family history groups. I am also sharing the live link to Graham Jaunay’s article on Privacy. : http://www.jaunay.com/article3.html
Also please remember that over and above all those requirements, we are members of Rootschat and the Terms of Use are clearly available on each webpage that we visit: https://www.rootschat.com/forum/terms.php
There’s also the following which explains about refraining from posting information about people who are or maybe still living. https://www.rootschat.com/help/posting_guide.php
And there’s the HOW TO thread stickied at the top of the Australia Board – see particularly reply # 2.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=368728.0
Simply put, please do not include the names of people in your posts who you do not know are no longer living. There are Australians living who were born as LONG AGO as before WWI commenced in 1914... See : https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Australian_supercentenarians
Rootschat is NOT a private forum. It is a public forum. People can readily read these threads without having to log on. By using my own offline resources to help you and your quests to advance back through your earlier generations, I anticipate that you are researching your deceased ancestors. I do not understand why anyone would want to publish ONLINE in a PUBLIC forum the identifying names of ANY LIVING PERSON. It infringes RChat’s Terms of Use, It infringes Privacy laws, rules, practices in the eight jurisdictions in Australia, and it is simply SLOPPY, UNINFORMED, and POTENTIALLY HURTFUL family history research.
As a general rule, if your person of interest is unlikely to be at least 100 years of age, and you don’t know if they are still alive, PLEASE ASSUME THEY ARE.
Thank You,
JM
Also please remember that over and above all those requirements, we are members of Rootschat and the Terms of Use are clearly available on each webpage that we visit: https://www.rootschat.com/forum/terms.php
There’s also the following which explains about refraining from posting information about people who are or maybe still living. https://www.rootschat.com/help/posting_guide.php
And there’s the HOW TO thread stickied at the top of the Australia Board – see particularly reply # 2.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=368728.0
Simply put, please do not include the names of people in your posts who you do not know are no longer living. There are Australians living who were born as LONG AGO as before WWI commenced in 1914... See : https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Australian_supercentenarians
Rootschat is NOT a private forum. It is a public forum. People can readily read these threads without having to log on. By using my own offline resources to help you and your quests to advance back through your earlier generations, I anticipate that you are researching your deceased ancestors. I do not understand why anyone would want to publish ONLINE in a PUBLIC forum the identifying names of ANY LIVING PERSON. It infringes RChat’s Terms of Use, It infringes Privacy laws, rules, practices in the eight jurisdictions in Australia, and it is simply SLOPPY, UNINFORMED, and POTENTIALLY HURTFUL family history research.
As a general rule, if your person of interest is unlikely to be at least 100 years of age, and you don’t know if they are still alive, PLEASE ASSUME THEY ARE.
Thank You,
JM
