Alter Idem wrote:NO confidential records were accessed. Member records are not what Dan's friend viewed. He viewed a directory of presently serving Bishops which is only accessible to Bishops. Member records cannot be viewed by other Bishops--EWC or those four men were not in danger of anyone looking at their confidential church membership records.
Any Bishop who is concerned about a person who may be lying publicly on message boards, claiming to be a Bishop, but acting in a way that would be inappropriate for a Bishop and possibly misleading people, would be within his rights to check it out. He owes it to the church to look out for its well-being.
If the bishop who ran the CDOL search in question here wanted to go further, he could easily request and view a person's church membership record. He only needs a name and a birthdate. The process takes less than a minute. If a bishop has no qualms about running searches of the CDOL in violation of the directory's conditions of use, what will keep him from requesting and reviewing a person's membership record as part of his overriding "duty" "to the church to look out for its well-being"? Certainly some language in the church handbook won't stop him.
For the record, I would note that the
CDOL is accessible to users who serve in positions other than bishop. At the ward level, the following can access it: bishop, bishopric counselors, ward clerk, assistant clerks, and executive secretary.
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