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From: "Lowe DNA" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Jason Clary's program to view FTDNA's Projects
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:25:21 -0600
In-Reply-To: <45A3CA30.2030309@comcast.net>
Bonnie...
I think this program is useful and very creative. Kudos to Jason Clary for
his effort to help all of us.
No full names, addresses, and/or email addresses are shown just the name and
kit number and marker values. Things
all shown at my FTDNA Bailey website at...
http://tinyurl.com/gxc38
There is one Bailey in the Jason's HAP-Q list (me) but there are possible a
half a million Baileys in the U.S. alone and
around the world who knows ? So privacy here for me is not a concern.
Lord knows we need more tools to begin to separate out the various
haplotypes in each haplogroup.
Bill
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[mailto:]On Behalf Of Bonnie Schrack
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 11:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [DNA] Jason Clary's program to view FTDNA's Projects
Ron Scott wrote:
>
> Thanks to Jason Clary for programming a utility to view the Y-DNA
> results of FTDNA's various Y-DNA projects. To view some of these,
> click here: http://tinyurl.com/yyzgaa.
Jason's program is very nice and useful, but I have one concern. I
wonder if anyone has noticed that he has somehow accessed the surnames
of all the participants. These are not displayed on our public website
for the J haplogroup project, but only on the administrator's website.
Members of the project have not agreed to have their surnames displayed;
they may choose to have their ancestor's name displayed, but this is
optional, and many don't, though I wish they would.
Jason's program side-steps the privacy protections built into FTDNA's
system. I hope none of my J project members will be distressed. There
will be a large number of people affected by this in the different
haplogroups, and I would imagine there is a good probability that
somewhere among all these people, there will be some who would very much
object to having their surnames made public. So, while I do appreciate
the information access as a researcher, I'm a little worried about what
this does to participant's right to privacy -- not to have their
identity made public without their consent being given.
Bonnie Schrack
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