Privacy and Missing Persons after Natural Disasters

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/ December 22, 2014

This report identifies privacy legal challenges to sharing information about missing persons in the context of disaster relief work.

It discusses how information systems strike different balances between privacy and ease of use (page 9), and includes a set of options and strategies that organizations could pursue to help address privacy concerns – see page 79.

Where does it live: http://www.scribd.com/doc/136520439/Privacy-and-Missing-Persons-after-Natural-Disasters

Where this comes from: This report was produced by the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School (Fordham CLIP), and the Commons Lab of the Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP) of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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