Which gets into the very tricky legal/ethical question of whether people have privacy rights after death.
Most of the places where I've seen documents that might raise questions, the person in question was long since dead, as aside.
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Thinking about it: I've only "redacted" myself for privacy two times. One was clearly medical information of a private individual.
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The other was someone who was alive, had done something that was nationally noteworthy as a child, but was largely unknown today.
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In the latter case, the person was alive (and somewhat notable today), but did not want to be easily identified as the child in question.
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So, while I still talked about the child in my dissertation, and cited the research (it was notable),
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I didn't go out of my way to identify the child, much less link them up with their adult identity.
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A researcher could track down the source and do some Googling and figure it out (as I did). But I didn't make it any easier.
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Which puts some limits on my feelings about it. In this case, happy to not identify, felt that was an appropriate request.
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On the other hand, I still wrote about the "event" in question (and cited it). Important enough for understanding to warrant that, IMO.
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But I really mean "IMO"—I didn't ask anyone else, or a review board, or whatever. Idiosyncratic & subjective, to be sure. A judgment call.
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