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Collaboration vs Confidentiality
By Jeremy | February 3, 2010
In the new age of social networking, we, the users, must closely watch the balance we strike between collaboration and confidentiality. Genealogy has progressed wildly since people have started to place their pedigrees on their personal websites. Collaboration has made the increase in genealogical research possible. Yet, many people fail to realize that being able to find your mother’s maiden name on your personal family history website is a problem. This doesn’t seem like a big problem until we think about the last time we registered for a site like Facebook. The seemingly innocuous question about your mother’s maiden name now becomes much more important; that name can be used to reset your password and gain control of your Facebook account. We need to always be on guard and check our desires for collaboration with our need for confidentiality.
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