[open-government] Examples of dates of birth being published as part of the public record?

Ton Zijlstra ton.zijlstra at gmail.com
Mon Sep 2 14:35:24 UTC 2013


Op 2 sep. 2013 15:33 schreef "Ton Zijlstra" <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> het
volgende:

> The Dutch cadastral data includes full name and date of birth of the
> property owner, next to data on the building and the buying price. My
> hometown makes all of that available through the city council website. As
> an explorer web service,  not as data (bulk) download though.
>
> Ton
> Op 2 sep. 2013 13:05 schreef "Jonathan Gray" <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> het
> volgende:
>
>> I was wondering whether anyone might know of any examples of where
>> personal information about living persons - such as dates of birth - have
>> been published as part of the public record by public sector bodies?
>>
>> For example in relation to interest, lobby or political registries?
>>
>> While generally personal information needs to be carefully protected,
>> we'd be interested to hear of examples of where there might be broader
>> public interest arguments or exceptions for publishing this kind of data.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
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