That Moment in Time: FRIDAY FOSSICKING 1st March, 2019

FamilySearch has announced they will be closing their FamilySearch Centre at the National Archives in London, England on March 23, 2019. The announcement said due to advances in technology free services can be accessed at home or in one of their local Family History Centres or in a FamilySearch affiliate library.

The National Archives (UK) has agreed to become a FamilySearch Affiliate Library thereby all digitized records on FamilySearch will continue to PCs located in the reading rooms. One will need a free FamilySearch account to access records and self-help guides will be available. FamilySearch volunteers will no longer be available for one on one assistance.

Ancestry Institution UK and Findmypast are available on computers at the National Archives.

In checking at the time of this posting there was no announcement on the FamilySearch London website. This information was provided in an email sent from the London FamilySearch Centre dated February 23, 2019 at 16:03

Thank you to Jeanette Rosenberg, JGS UK for sharing the information with us.

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Apps people use for health reasons, such as cardiac monitoring, ovulation trackers, real estate sites when one is looking at for homes, are all sharing data with Facebook, unbeknownst by the user, and that includes app users who are not Facebook subscribers. How is this possible? Facebook software is built into thousands of apps including an analytical tool called "App Events" that permits developers to record their users' activity an report it back to Facebook regardless of whether user login in via Facebook or even have a profile.

In a study performed by The Wall Street Journal they found at least 11 popular apps with tens of millions of downloads have been sharing the sensitive data entered by users. They monitored 70 apps in their study. None of them appear to notify users about this data-sharing tool through privacy policies or terms of service. Because the sharing is happening outside of the limits of standard permissions — like location, voice, and camera access — it appears neither Apple nor Google is aware of when an app on iOS or Android is communicating sensitive information like this to a third-party service.

To read the article see: https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-give-apps-sensitive-personal-information-then-they-tell-facebook-11550851636

Facebook says it’s not collecting sensitive health and financial information and using it more broadly. According to The Verge, "many of the most egregious situations the Journal discovered were so-called “custom app events,” with parameters defined by the app makers and not with any input from Facebook. The company said it advises app makers not to share data that it would consider sensitive — like health and financial data — and it claims not to use the data outside of letting the app that collected the information target Facebook users with ads."

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/22/18236398/facebook-mobile-apps-data-sharing-ads-health-fitness-privacy-violation

Earlier this month the UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee published its final report after more than 18 months of investigation into Facebook and its privacy practices. Members of Parliament have requested that social media companies be required to remove “harmful” or “illegal” content on their platforms and be held liable for it according to a compulsory code of ethics. " Facebook’s handling of personal data, and its use for political campaigns, are prime and legitimate areas for inspection by regulators, and it should not be able to evade all editorial responsibility for the content shared by its users across its platforms." Further legislation regulating information technology and social media is anticipated. See: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/1791/1791.pdf

As previously reported in the IAJGS Records Access Alert, Facebook is under scrutiny by the European Union and the United States about how it treats its users and non-users private information. Facebook has faced large fines from the EU and is currently being reviewed for large fines by the US Federal Trade Commission (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/technology/facebook-ftc-fines.html)

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

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