JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO

Sharing Data on Genealogical Websites: Uses and Abuses

Speaker: Henry Blumberg

VIRTUAL MEETING: View from home

Wednesday, 26 May 2021, 7:30 p.m. ET.

In an age of burgeoning technology, genealogists have concerns that relate to genealogy websites, their uses and possible abuses. These include issues of privacy, user agreements, facial recognition, data mining, ownership of data, sharing DNA information with testing companies, surveillance capitalism, and genealogical manipulation and fraud.

Henry Blumberg is a barrister in Toronto. He is on the Board of JGS Toronto, has served three terms as convener of the Latvia SIG, and two terms on the Board of Governors of JewishGen. He has presented at twelve IAJGS conferences and was a speaker in Riga at the “Names and Fates Project” in June 2008, as well as at International Conferences on “Jews in a Changing World” in 2011 and in 2014.

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