How will the FGFT comply with the Data Protection Directive 1995/46/EC of the General Data Protectio
The stringent regulations of the GDPR are a baseline for what will happen with privacy issues within any shared information effort. How will this work with the FGFT (Family Group Family Tree)?
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From what I have seen, we users take on the personal responsibility for following privacy guidelines when we create or join a group:
Sounds like we better keep documentation that we have asked for and received permission from great aunt Jane to add her to our shared group, put her birth date and other information there, and post any pictures with her in them whether she is going to be joining the group herself or not. Then when cousin Joe who is in the group teases her about her real age and she files a complaint about privacy violation, and FamilySearch shows that we agreed not to put it there without her permission, we have that documentation that she told us we could post that birthdate.
However, I'm still looking forward to a full explanation of exactly what that statement means.
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It would be helpful to have a recorded consent for each person available to the administrator. So, if I invite a person into the group, then they sign a consent agreement that is then available in a list to the administrator.
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What about profiles in the group for people who are not members of the group? Anyway to include a consent agreement for them?
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Just an observation...
Be mindful of walking down a path of 'granularity permissions'. Onerous to implement and maintain if it is too granular (no pictures of me as a baby wearing diapers) vs (no pictures of me) or (no birthdate information provided by me) vs (don't link to my public record birth announcement from the paper).
This can get very sticky, very fast.
Who plays traffic cop when the link for the birthdate comes from a public newspaper article vs. great auntie said don't post her age. Technically, you didn't post her age. You posted a publically available newspaper article about her mother giving birth.
Perhaps it would be helpful to have a 'supporting page' that provides examples of how to handle the normal issues that arise from public vs private information. Clarity in group rules, restrictions from familysearch legal department, common courtesy, etc.
Bekasu
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Just a thought here, but Ancestry has had shared living trees for years...........
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Ancestry.com does not have a feature that is comparable to Memories on FamilySearch.org. Ancestry.com family trees are also individually maintained and not part of a universal family tree such as the FamilySearch.org Family Tree. Yes, an Ancestry.com user can add someone to edit their family tree. Yes, you are correct that people added as editors can automatically view living people, remove, and edit existing content, and add people, records, comments, photos, and stories. Maybe, they have avoided the problem of the law in Europe.
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Yes, I was added to a private tree on Ancestry. I can see all of the living persons and memories that are added.
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