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Please remove my childs info
why is a School teacher posting names of students and their siblings and their ages on websites? How is this acceptable for a teacher?

This message was edited 4/7/2015, 11:44 AM

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I try to honour all requests to remove personally identifiable information. Normally I would deem the post okay, since there were no last names or middle names involved. However, I don't know whether this is acceptable for a teacher to post (from the school's point of view).I'm going to take the post down, in part because of your request, and also because I wouldn't want the teacher in question to get in trouble.

This message was edited 4/7/2015, 1:31 PM

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Thank you. I appreciate it.
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This might be beyond the point considering all the responses so far. . .
But, there is really no way that someone could track someone by the posts on BtN. I mean, they would have to ALREADY know the information about siblings, ages etc.
People post things online all the time that I consider overboard with the details. But, as far as posting names (even first and middles)... that is not enough for people to go on. I mean, what are the chances that someone wants to know the name of some children in a classroom AND happens to check this website?
While I understand your concern for privacy... bringing this topic up just cast a spotlight on the very post you are hoping no one sees. If it helps... my daughter has an incredibly unusual name: Clarisse Bituin Gioia... and there just happens to be a few other people in the world with similar names. There happen to be about 25 people with MY exact name in the United States alone... and a couple of them have siblings that match one or more of mine. Which means that there is no way to prove that the children in those posts actually ARE yours, even if it seems likely they are. Sorry if my honesty sounded harsh.
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This is a weird post. I clicked on the post link and those are common names. Just meaningless lists.
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Hey, if it's any consolation, I looked at the link, and your kids' names are pretty common and so I think only you would know that it's them, besides whoever posted it in the first place. Also, she didn't post their middle names or parental names, which she probably could have done easily if she were their teacher. Apparently I commented on the original post 5 years ago, but I'd forgotten about it entirely...as had everyone else, I think.
I do understand your desire for privacy, though.
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Yes, please remove.
Thank you!
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Is it even still up?? The only link I see is to someone's profile
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This one: behindthename.com/bb/baby/3906985Personally, I'm inclined to agree with Anneza (I doubt this is legit)...Would it be unfair to delete the post if we don't even know if this person is lying or not, or does it just not matter since the post in question is so old anyway?
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I messaged Mike C to look at this and clarify his policy.
If he doesn't reply today I'll go ahead and delete it (but no guarantee of any other deletions on such a request)
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Hello,I can remove the post. It's no big deal. However, if I remove it, any complaint you make to the school will have nothing to back it up. Do you really want it removed? Please verify. It's not generally considered a violation of privacy for people to post the names only, of family groups they encounter, as long as no other identifying info is given. For a teacher to do it is arguably inappropriate, since presumably they come by the information through their association with the school, rather than in public. But in perspective, it doesn't amount to much privacy threat. If any.

This message was edited 4/5/2015, 11:49 PM

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You gave away waaay more info when you linked back to it and TOLD US THE CITY. Now we know where all those kids live.

This message was edited 4/5/2015, 9:59 PM

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behindthename.com/bb/baby/3906985
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Er, that topic is nearly five years old. Is your child even in that same class after so long a time...?
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That, and wouldn't re-posting it just further the OP's complaint?
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behindthename.com/members/92354
Dear Lisa,
Take down the thread with my childrens info Asap!
What gives you the right to post my childs siblings and ages?
Thank you,
Concerned mom!
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A search reveals that that poster hasn't posted anything since June 22, 2014. It's doubtful she will see this and I don't know how necessary this was. Most of us here think that withholding surnames is enough privacy protection. Here are my grandchildren:Leonidas Rex, age 7
Abraham Viktor, age 6
James Thaddeus, age 18 monthsDoesn't bother me.

This message was edited 4/5/2015, 8:39 PM

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Again, please take down this personal info. You can choose to post your own families names but for someone to post sibling groups and their ages without their permission is wrong.
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If we couldn't do that, half the posts here couldn't happen! That's an exaggeration, but a good deal of our posts involve the first names of real children, real newborn babies, and real adults. I've done it myself, posted the first names of people who are not part of my family. I really don't think this has ever been considered an invasion of privacy or a problem. Perhaps a moderator or the site owner can clarify.
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If this person had just done a list that would be fine, but to group them into sibling groups and write comments about them-maybe they are adopted? That is just too far, and I am more shocked that a teacher would do this.Again I wouldnt have a problem if is was just a long list. I am also filing a report with our school board.
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Because no full names or identities have been revealed, nothing unethical has been committed. Nothing else needs to be said about this.

This message was edited 4/7/2015, 4:01 AM

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That's such a weird and paranoid thing to do. How is his personal info even, they're just names. Don't waste you're time... on BtN lists are read and forgotten. It makes you seem paranoid.
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I call BS on thisin a china bowl
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Why?
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The length of time that has passed since the original list was posted, for one thing, but the threat of a complaint to the school at this late date kind of tipped the balance toward this being total BS at worst or at best, a huge bluff on the part of somebody not entirely rational.
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"not entirely rational" - I buy this.To someone paranoid of privacy, it'd be no fun to see your kids' names come up on google, posted by their former teacher. I bet she just freaked and didn't think about it beyond that. I think if she were just trolling she'd have had a lot more and angrier things to say.It only works as trolling because of all these replies judging about it .... .... *guilty face*
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I agree. When the Internet was new and shiny, someone contacted, I think, Wikipedia to complain that his children had found an article on slavery in the USA while doing research for a history project, and since they were all of African and therefore doubtless of slave ancestry, this traumatic info should be removed forthwith to protect innocent young minds. When I read the OP's complaint, I thought of that. What's even more crazy is that presumably no harm has come of it so far. Which suggests that no harm will ever come of it! So, yeah, this doesn't look like a genuine complaint. Could be an unbalanced person, could be an unfunny joke, could be someone trying to make trouble for whoever these kids actually belong to, and let's face it, there's a wide choice. But, nothing for us to worry about.
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The poster sounds like a nutt case and I wonder if it's someone wasting their time, it would be great if she complained to the school since she would just be laughed at.
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This is one of the most boring trolls we've ever had. I miss the days when we had thirteen year olds claiming to be married to millionaires and pregnant with triplets.
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Aw, that sounds fun. I wasn't here for those good times... :/Even the trolls on Baby Name Genie are dying down. :( I miss the crazy stalker lady who wanted to marry Adam Copeland while still being married to her current husband and name her baby girl Adymm after the aforementioned Copeland. She was both fun and infuriating.
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I think trolls in general are dying down because it's so easy to suss them out. Back in the early days of the internet, it wasn't as easy and anyone could say anything. Well, anyone can still say anything, but you know what I mean. There was this naive sort of trust in the early days that we don't have now.I didn't know who Adam Copeland was, so I googled him. Eh. He's not my type. And Adymm is god awful.
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Really? I think people through that the Internet was anonymous then and would troll but now people use their real names way more often in their usernames and just share it. Back in the 1990s when the Internet was you using pseudonym and nicknames was big. Like back in the 90s it was all "Don't meet people they may be murders and kill you!" now people meet people off the Internet all the time.
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I was thinking more about making stuff up. It's easier to find out if someone is telling the truth about their lives now than it was then.
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When the Internet was young*d
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Just out of curiosity, how did you find out about this post after almost five years?
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At some point, all the posts here get indexed into google. She probably googled her kids name.
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LOL, well to test this, I Googled "Leonidas Rex." I didn't find any of the posts I've made here about my grandson's name, but I did find one on Nameberry from someone else who was considering the exact the same first and middle name but was afraid it sounds like a dinosaur! And got a couple of responses saying, "Who says that's a bad thing?" which is exactly how my daughter felt about it.
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Seems like other people use Leonidas Rex as an online handle, but I did find a BTN post on page 10. (I skipped 2-9 though)I know the pages index because I may or may not have posted a family surname that is completely unique to my family a few years ago and BtN posts came up when I was googling it for family tree stuff.
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I wonder if it WAS your daughter posting on NB. /:)
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No, it wasn't her. I asked her and she said no, and then she pointed out that my grandson Leonidas was already six years old when the post was made. I thought it was quite a coincidence.
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