On 2014-10-14 at 23:54:09 +0200, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > I'm wondering about this argument. How does maping information that > publicly available (names on tombstones) constitute a privacy breach ? > In many (most ?) countries, the birth and death registers are publicly > available in the local public office. Genealogists trade data files on > the internet as if they were TV series. If there's a law in some > country preventing that kind of information-gathering, I feel it's > standing on pretty thin ground.
At least in Italy, access to the birth and death registers are restricted to the person and their immediate relatives, at least for the living and IIRC the recently dead. In theory access is public for old data, altough I don't remember the exact cryterion. -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
