Here in Canada one is no
longer allowed to share personal information outside the group to which it
is intended. So we would not be able to post a guild newsletter with names,
addresses and phone numbers of the executive.
Carol replied:
I was somewhat surprised to see that in Canada one is not allowed to publish
'personal information' on a website such as a lace or craft group. Would
the situation be different if the person(s) on the Committee waived their
right to privacy, and agreed to having *either* their phone number, their
eMail address, or their postal address (NOT all three!) published, so that
prospective members could somehow contact the group?
The Canadian law sounds somewhat similar to our (UK) Data Protection Act. Although much of it is concerned with what info is held (in electronic form) about individuals and their rights to access that info, you still can't (or shouldn't publish that sort of info without permission.
Yes, the web is considered public and if individuals choose to publish their own telephone numbers or addresses etc on personal websites that's fine but it's not for others to do. My website has a whole page of links to lace related websites but very few links to email addresses, the couple that are there are with the express permission of the persons concerned.
If anyone from outside wanted to contact a committee member of any organisation, in Canada or elsewhere, surely it could be done via the organisation's published address.
Brenda http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/
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