Official Clan MacTavish Society
since 1997
· Donley Tomey rewrote the DHA Privacy Policy to provide Steven MacTavish with personal information about our members and contributors as evidenced by the email dated October 30, 05 12:57 PM stating he had added a third sentence to comply with chief's request. (atch 6)
· This was followed by a second email dated October 30, 2005 1:03PM referring to another change in the section "Access of Personal Data" "Are these changes adequate for your needs?" (atch 7)
· Upon discovery of these proposed changes, Donley Tomey was called by the treasurer and told that these changes had not been presented to nor authorized by the DHA Board of Directors and he was not authorized to make them. Furthermore, that Steven MacTavish's position as "chief" gave him no rights to this information. This conversation was followed up by an email dated October 30, 2005 at 8:14 PM. (atch 8) We thought the issue had been resolved.
On February 4, 2006 we discovered that Donley Tomey had ignored our instructions and passed the DHA database to Steven MacTavish without any notification to the members that their personal information including address, telephone numbers, email addresses, spouses, children's names and dates of birth, work phone/email information and their assigned membership numbers had been released to an unauthorized person outside of DHA. Members began reporting that they were receiving emails from Steven MacTavish and, since that date, both members and contributors have been subjected to unsolicited emails from him and other connected individuals. This is apparently identity theft.
On February 4, 2006 we discovered that our access to the DHA webpage (http://www.mactavish.org) had been terminated in spite of the fact that Mary Thompson was the primary webmaster and was sharing the only password with Tom Thompson of Colorado who had just been appointed as webmaster. Email dated February 4, 2006 9:41AM (atch 9) from Mary Thompson to Tom Thompson (new webmaster) questioning why her login no longer worked to access the webpage. His reply, dated February 4, 2006 10:05 PM, showed that he knew the login had been changed and referred her to the "chief" (Steven MacTavish) as the controlling authority behind Tom's changing the login. (atch 10) Mary forwarded her correspondence with Tom Thompson to Steven MacTavish for an explanation. In an email dated February 5, 2005 12:39 PM from Steven MacTavish to Mary Thompson he acknowledges that the login to the website had been changed. He requested that we wait for a letter of explanation. (atch 11) No letter was never sent to us (added 3/9/08).
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