[Talk-us] Removal of sensitive data in East Bay Regional Park District, CA

[Mike Thompson]

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 5:56 PM Clay Smalley <claysmalley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 6:44 PM Ian Nicholson <ian at binaryash.net> wrote:
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>> I don’t see any value to having such sensitive information documented,
>> and I the damage to sensitive sites is likely to be great. I propose that
>> the data be removed.
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> I concur with the reasons presented here, and in my opinion the data needs
> to be redacted. In general, it's important that tribal privileged knowledge
> remains within the tribes—otherwise, we are responsible for opening up
> people's sacred sites and traditions to vandalism and desecration.
>
The question is, if this is really sensitive information, how did the
original mapper get the information? It is not like they just had a little
bit of knowledge of general archeology and stumbled upon this site and
decided to map it, they after all tagged it with its name.  Perhaps the
park has a sign at the site, in which case they are not really protecting
the information either, they just don't want it too widely publicized
apparently.  Can we ask the park folks and the original mapper what the
exact situation is?

However, if it really is sensitive, and the park is protecting the
information (perhaps the original mapper worked at the park at one time and
had access to this information which they were not supposed to share), then
yes, it should be removed.

Mike

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