[Data-modeling] Privacy, public figures, etc

[Kirrily Robert]

----- "Bryan Cheung" <bryan.cheung at metaweb.com> wrote:
> Some other points to consider:
> 
> 1. Say a user is browsing a company topic, and knows a friend that  
> works at that company.  Trying to be a good freebaser, he/she decides 
> 
> to enter his/her friend's information as an employee.  If we had the 
> 
> distinction of public vs. private person and the ECT of person on the 
> 
> type Employment tenure was Public Person, he/she would have  
> inadvertently just added/updated his/her friend's person-topic as a  
> public person by entering in their employment history on the company 
> 
> topic.

I should add, to clarify here, that we were thinking that "profession" would be a property on "Person" while the full employment history would be a property on "Public person".  That seemed reasonable to us when we were thinking it through, though as Bryan points out, it could make it quite easy to accidentally type someone as a "public person" without knowing you were doing it.

K.

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Kirrily Robert
Freebase Community Director
kirrily at metaweb.com