tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434701420960162731.post192620116494435276..comments2024-03-13T08:05:38.770+00:00Comments on The GENES Blog: EU threats to genealogy?Chris Patonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05073425769475523109noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434701420960162731.post-19659619331207054062013-06-25T11:06:29.500+01:002013-06-25T11:06:29.500+01:00Same here. It seems to me that if this is what is ...Same here. It seems to me that if this is what is claimed to be on the cards, the worst case scenario would be a restriction on some aspects of genealogical research - tracing the living, heir hunting, for example. But data protection does not affect the dead. In Scotland, for example, most libraries with parish register microfilms have them up to 1855 only, so how could they be restricted, and for what purpose? Might explain GRONI's caution in not making available modern indexes online on its new forthcoming BMD site past the classified 'historic period' that it is proposing (100 years for births, 75 marriages, 50 deaths).Chris Patonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05073425769475523109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434701420960162731.post-40073905323481305682013-06-25T10:48:19.298+01:002013-06-25T10:48:19.298+01:00It's unclear to me what the real effect might ...It's unclear to me what the real effect might be. We already have the case that school registers (e.g.) are classed as personal data by the ICO. But all that means is that it's private until we can assume that the people have all died. Personal info about dead people has no protection.<br /><br />Adrian BAdrian Brucenoreply@blogger.com