The Privatizer extension

The privatizer extension marks entities private to prevent sensitive information from being published accidentally.

Entities in Betty have privacy. This is a ternary property, with the following possible values:

public (entity.privacy = betty.privacy.Privacy.PUBLIC)

The entity will be included when publishing your ancestry. The privacy should not be changed.

private (entity.privacy = betty.privacy.Privacy.PRIVATE)

The entity will not be included when publishing your ancestry. The privacy should not be changed.

undetermined (entity.privacy = betty.privacy.Privacy.UNDETERMINED)

The entity is public, but its privacy may be determined or changed at will.

The following entities are processed by the Privatizer. They are marked private except if any of the following conditions are met:

People

People are considered dead past the lifetime threshold, which defaults to 125 years, but can be changed in your site’s configuration file.

• The person has an end-of-life event, such as a death, final disposition, or will.

• Any event that was at least the lifetime threshold ago.

• For every person n generation(s) before this person, if that person has an end-of-life event at least n * lifetime threshold ago.

• For every person n generation(s) before this person, if that person has any event that was at least (n + 1) * lifetime threshold ago.

• For every descendant if that person has any event that was at least lifetime threshold ago.

If the Privatizer determines a person private, it will also privatize any events, citations, and files associated with that person.

File

Any citations associated with private files will be privatized.

Event

Any citations and files associated with private events will be privatized.

Citation

The source and any files associated with private citations will be privatized.

Source

Any files associated with private sources will be privatized.

Enable this extension in your project’s configuration file as follows:

YAML

extensions:
  privatizer: {}

JSON

{
  "extensions": {
    "privatizer": {}
  }
}

Configuration

This extension is not configurable.