Re:Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more
by magduf on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @11:13AM
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You could do this for any historical name. Just pick up a history book, find a random person in there, and then look up people with the same last name: you're bound to find some. Who would cold-call some person who happens to share a last name with some 16th-century person who got a footnote in a history book somewhere? And why does this matter? At what point can we finally say "this person has been dead for ages, and we don't need to worry about protecting their privacy any more"? Do we need to worry about protecting the privacy of people whose corpses were found in Pompeii, who were killed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius almost 2000 years ago, in 79CE? Seriously, this is absurd.
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