Familypedia:Privacy

The records here are meant to form a historic record for the families concerned. Please do not include private information about living individuals without specific permission from the individuals. Such information may allow identity theft. The general consensus seems to be, include only the individual's names, keeping other items like birth dates off the page, or list only the year. Some people do not like even "public" information such as birth year on the Web.

The more responsible public genealogy databases avoid publishing such information even if it is submitted. For example, WorldConnect accepts and stores GEDCOM files but for display purposes routinely "cleans" such information about any person born less than 100 years ago who is not known to have died. All that appears is, eg, "Living Bloggs" (son of Joe Marcus Bloggs who died in May 2002) married "Living Jones" and they have children "Living Bloggs" and "Living Bloggs".

(Because most people doing genealogical research are interested in earlier generations, where people were not so well documented as today, there is seldom any need to have living persons on a public page such as this.)