charity wrote:In those temples which use bar coded recommends, they are specifically prohibited from collecting that information either by name of the person or ward or stake they attend. They do know how many people attend on each day. But as raw numbers, males and females. That is it.
Bull. When the new bar-coded TR's were handed out, each one had a unique barcode assigned to the person who received the TR, and that information is kept in the bishop's record book. The primary purpose of the barcode was to identify and stop persons who tried to get into the temple for whom the TR had been rescinded (as well as to stop forgeries). To claim that a barcode cannot be matched up with an individual member, is simply ludicrous.
Patrons do not register, do not sign their names on lists, nothing.
They do now, thanks to the barcode on the new TR's.
And in the temple, groups are known only by the number of people attending, not by names. For instance, they know that X number of young people with X number of adults are coming in for a baptism assignment. But they don't even know how many actually show up. People do not sign up to do endowments at all. And when the ordinance cards come in for recording, we do not know which group even did how many ordinances. All the temple records is total number done.
But the computers know, even if temple recorders do not. And you can bet that information from the computers is sent to leaders without temple recorders ever knowing.