WEB SITE REMOVES BIRTH RECORDS
If you're Californian or Texan by birth, you no longer have to worry about your vitals hanging out. A quick round of public pressure persuaded RootsWeb.com to take down all of our birth records. In the case of Texans (such as my mom) the site had posted both parents' full names, in addition to the birth data California was providing. "After receiving hundreds of calls and complaints from across the nation, the company decided Friday to remove the entire California birth record database, with about 24.6 million names, along with a second database of Texas births with more than 15 million records," the Merc said.
- posted by Amy @ 12/02/2001 10:33:00 PM