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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: soc.men,alt.abortion.inequity,alt.feminism,alt.dads-rights
- Subject: Re: Michal - Who should protect your rights?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:33:08 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- References: <1jhk7hINN7rs@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Jan20.193459.3521@bnr.ca> <1jl0bpINNkpb@gap.caltech.edu> <C1826A.2np@cs.psu.edu> <1993Jan22.180229.5283@bnr.ca>
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- grey@bnr.ca (Grey) writes:
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- >In article <C1826A.2np@cs.psu.edu>, beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>
- >> >I would dearly love to have such public records more easily available.
- >> >A national computerized database of birth and death records would be a
- >> >good start. I don't see that this would violate privacy since such
- >> >records are already public -- but it would greatly improve access
- >> >and simplify record-keeping. Comments anyone?
- >>
- >These are serious problems with the concept of accessibility of information.
- >Before going to the trouble of trying to address whether this sort of
- >information can be made available in a reasonable and secure manner, do
- >you agree that improved access satisfies your right to knowledge of your
- >child, or would you argue that the father must be explicitly notified? If
- >the latter is the case, there's no point in pursuing the privacy issue further?
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- I think that improved acccess to public records should suffice. If a
- man is worried about paternity the improved access would allow him to
- easily confirm his paternity or else put his concerns to rest.
-
- Don?
- --
-
- -- Michal
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