[pct-l] Legal Ponderings......

[Donna Saufley]

Actually, the points are taken (as mine tend to be from time to time) from
listening and taking to heart what hikers say, not from my own personal
point of view.   Personally, I sign registers and am thrilled to put my name
along side that of so many friends.  I am also a solo female hiker, and sign
for safety reasons.  OTOH I prefer not to keep an online trail journal or
write the details about my hikes for public consumption, but I respect
other’s desire to do either.  

 

I am simply aware of situations where people posting journal entries and
emails about another hikers whereabouts on trail has caused the hikers
written about to lose privacy and feel stalked.  I’m sure the writers did
not intend that to be the consequence, but it’s a new reality in our
real-time world that didn’t exist years ago.

 

Unfortunately, privacy issues and the legality and appropriateness of
sharing information has managed to become a part of the trail experience.  

 

L-Rod

 

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From: g l [mailto:gailpl2003 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 3:57 PM
To: Donna L-Rod Saufley; PCT
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Legal Ponderings......

 

All good points Donna.  Bottom line for me is, I decided years ago not to
live in fear......to live in fear means all the "bad guys" have already won!
I refuse to be imprisoned by "what-if"s".........I lived my life too long in
that mind set.  I'm sure you understand.............

Wheeew

"Donna \"L-Rod\" Saufley" <dsaufley at sprynet.com> wrote:

If you want to remain incognito and under the radar, you've also got to hope
that other hikers aren't writing about you and your whereabouts and posting
on trail journals or elsewhere unbeknownst to you.  In other words, it's not
just your own actions that can put information about you, flattering or
unflattering, factual or not factual, on the internet.  It's an interesting
situation, to say the least.  

L-Riod

-----Original Message----- 
From: Andrea Dinsmore 
Sent: Jan 6, 2008 12:46 PM 
To: Donna Saufley 
Cc: g l , PCT 
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Legal Ponderings...... 




 If you don't want the world to read it, copy it, make "their own" book out
of it.........or know who or where you are in life...... don't post it.
Public sites are just that. You can send your progress reports to private
people to record and save for you. And for God's sake......don't sign the
registers. 

 

PCT MOM
 




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