Make Family Search more secure regarding living personal data
I found someone had changed my birth place. I was able to correct it back. I reported this as a possible abuse, and your people's reply treated it like it was not a serious problem. The issue is this, that if I was not aware of this change and the U.S. Government decides to do a background check on my info, which yes they can do by the way, it would be flagged. I don't think most church members are aware of this. But they need to reconsider that as an abuse. No one should be able to change anyone's person data (living that is) birth place, birth date, or similar data. They shouldn't be able to make any changes to personal to living data. And it is evident to me that they can at this time. I expect the church to do something about it.
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I assume you are talking about the FamilySearch Family Tree (FSFT)
In the FSFT, profiles of living people can only be viewed by the person who created them. Deceased profiles can be seen and edited by anyone. So not only did someone have your birthplace incorrect, they must have created a profile for you that listed you as deceased. That is serious since it exposes all your information to the public, and FS should deal with such cases swiftly. They run the risk of serious penalties under the GDPR (the EU privacy law) and other laws around the world if they do not take care that the personal details of living people are kept confidential.
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For thirty years I've been concerned about privacy. Not just for the living, but for the recently deceased. I'm named in public obituaries and a will. When death details for my grandparents are pubic (eg newspapers), and on top of that, organized and easy to find (such as any genealogy site) Info can be found about me.
It can be clear where a living person might live if all the recently deceased people live in the same city. And for people with uncommon surnames... they're easy to find.
I only put deceased people on my family trees on any site. But I can't control what my cousins all do. Someone could hack in, or there could be a untrustworthy IT guy or a computer glitch. On ancestry if you put Unknown (living/deceased) it appears as public. On Ancestry if you type gibberish in the death field it assumes your dead.
I read that in Japan people have legal names that they only use for legal documents, and that they have other names for personal reasons. Don't know if this is true.
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