On 6/21/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What -is- the ethical
question? The information is already easily available to anyone who
wishes to find it, so right-to-privacy doesn't hold.
Actually, it does. We are not a newspaper archive and our standards
are not theirs. If we do not need to use the names of living private
individuals, we should not do so, because *every* publication of
information about a private individual diminishes his privacy, and
while we are not in a position to control the contents of many
newspaper archives, we certainly are in complete control of one of the
most popular information sources on the planet. We should not
needlessly compromise privacy.